Dear friends
March was a wonderful month for me. I got to visit the holy city of Varanasi (also called Benares). My husband had his earliest days of schooling here and wished to visit his school. The city, also famous for the river Ganga and its temples made me join him, and I of course wished to see the school that I had heard about during our nearly 40 years of married life! Having planned the trip, I also explored the options of delivering a couple of lectures and I was very happy when the College of Ayurveda at the Benares Hindu University invited me to deliver two lectures – one on literature searching and one on reference management. About 80 participants attended each of the lectures – mostly students and some faculty members. I thank Dr Kishor Patwardhan who coordinated the planning. The faculty and head of the department have promised to invite QMed to conduct hands on workshops! The rest of the visit was great too – an energizing boat ride on the Ganga, visit to the temples and the evening “Aarti” on the banks of the holy river.
I also got to deliver a consumer oriented lecture on searching health information, for employees of NSEiT – a corporate organization. This was done as part of the Women’s Day initiatives by the company, and I thank them for choosing our lecture as a part of their events. Around 35 women attended the lecture and we had interesting questions and deliberations.
Vasumathi Sriganesh
