Sri Sri Ravi Shanakr Ji, announces to give Rs 100,000 donation to Help WildLife Foundation

From the Desk of Dr. Pradeep Srivastava

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I had the honour of attending an “International Conference on Climate Change and Global Warming” which was held in the MCM, DAV College, Chandigarh on the November 9, 2010. Sri Sri Ravi Shankar Ji was the chief guest of the conference where as I was the guest of honour. After the speech of Guru Ji Sri Sri Ravi Shankar Ji, I delivered a brief speech on the state of wild life of India, in which few very thought provoking slides were courtesy Dr Sunil Verma, CCMB, Hyderabad. Guru ji was in a hurry but Principal requested him to kindly listen to my talk. Guru ji stayed and after listening my 10 minutes talk on Help Wild Life and also knowing that how myself and Sunil has thought of making this body, looked me very much impressed. I appealed Guru ji to kindly donate only Rs 1 for the noble cause. Guru ji announced that he will not pay Rs 1. I was a bit shocked but then Guru Ji completed his statement that he will donate not RS. 1 but Rs. 100,000. I was amazed to see his kind gesture and after that Lt. Gen. V.P. Malik (former Chief of the staff, Indian Army) also gave donation.

(Pradeep K. Srivastava)
Principal Scientist
Medicinal & Process Chemistry Division
Central Drug Research Institute
(Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR)
Lucknow-226001, India

Winner of “THE OUTSTANDING YOUNG PERSON OF THE WORLD” award given by JUNIOR CHAMBER INTERNATIONAL (USA) to 10 selected persons of the world, annually.

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Who is Dr. Pradeep Srivastava

The fifty- something globe – trotter, known as the “Scientoon man” in the CDRI campus and outside, has achieved quite a feast by fusing complex scientific theories with dollops of humor, a concept reported to be going down well with audiences, whether in Philadelphia or Bangkok, Shimla or Stockholm. His experiments began way back in 1988, says Pradeep K. Srivastava, and were “triggered by the lukewarm response speakers receive at scientific seminars.

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Who is Dr. Sunil Kumar Verma

Sunil Kumar Verma
Born	(1974-09-28) September 28, 1974 (age 38) Tikri, Uttar Pradesh
Residence	Hyderabad, India
Nationality	Indian
Fields	Medical Oncology, Signal transduction, Wildlife Forensics
Institutions	CSIR India; Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology
Known for	Wildlife Forensics; R&D; Innovation
Notable awards	Council of Scientific and Industrial Research Technology Award; NRDC Meritorious Invention Award; Commonwealth Scholarship

Sunil Kumar Verma is an Indian molecular biologist working in the Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB), located in Hyderabad, India. He invented, along with Dr Lalji Singh, a “Novel Universal Molecular Technology for Wildlife Identification”.^[1] This technology later led to the establishment of India’s first ‘National Wildlife Forensic Cell’ in the Laboratory for the Conservation of Endangered Species (LaCONES)^[2] to provide the Wildlife Forensics Services to the Nation. This innovation was later honoured with the CSIR Technology Award for Life Science for the year 2008,^[3] BioAsia Innovation Award-2009,^[4] and the Meritorious Invention Award of the Year-2009 from NRDC, DSIR, Govt. of India.^[5] This technology is currently being used to establish the identity of confiscated meat, and other animal parts and products to establish the crime with the criminal in the cases pertaining to Wildlife Crime.

Dr Verma has been honoured with several other National International Awards and honours, including the Emerging Forensic Scientist Continental Award from the International Association of Forensics Sciences (IAFS), USA; and the Commonwealth Scholarships of the Commonwealth Commission, UK. Dr. Verma had been the Lindau Fellow during 2003, and recently he has been admitted as the Fellow of the Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology, Berlin and the Research Ambassador of DAAD (German Academic Exchange), to promote the bidirectional research endeavours between India and Germany ^[6]

Background[edit]

Verma was born in a small village of Uttar Pradesh and did his schooling in Tikri, Uttar Pradesh, India. In the year 1974, he went to the Govind Ballabh Pant University of Agriculture & Technology, Pantnagar for his Graduation and Post Graduation. He did his doctoral studies in Medical Oncology from the University of Oxford, United Kingdom with Commonwealth Scholarship. During May 1998-June 2000, Dr. Verma worked in the DNA Fingerprinting Division of CDFD, Hyderabad as a Scientist and since June 2000-till date, he is working as Scientist in CCMB, Hyderabad, India. He is also serving as an Expert Member on the Scientific Panel for Biological Hazard in the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Govt. of India ^[7]

As for his research interest, Dr Sunil Kumar Verma is working in the arena of molecular cell signalling for understanding of cellular signalling networks and underlying molecular mechanisms in relation to the human health and disease, in particular the Tuberculosis and Cancers. He is also continuing his interests in Wildlife Conservation and Wildlife Forensics ^[8]

Wo Desh ki Beti[edit]

‘Wo Desh Ki beti’ is the collection of hindi poetry written by Verma in the honor of ‘Damini’ (the victim of the gang rape) following the infamous 2012 Delhi gang rape case. The first and most prominent poem of the collection is entitled Wo desh ki beti.