my project

My project in research was role of growth promoters and retardents in Cucurbitaceae. THe reason was there wide range shepes and sizes in Cucuebitaceaelike snake gourd, pumpkin, cucumber and one wild variety which was single seeded and very small. I started doing experiments. Ethyl alcohol was important to take extracts of fruits and analise the quanity of gibberlins, auxins and reatardent cytokinin. Gibberlins and auxins were growth promoters. THere was stiff competition for etheline and space in Ac lab where we have to keep the seeslings for growth under isotonic condition, light and temperature. Some how I did preliminary work and submitted. Our guide told me to send those papers for a science journal. I sent it. Since my handwriting was poor, he asked me to learn type and shorthand. Istarted going to type institute. Iwas collecting material for my project in sv library. Iwas given land in the garden to grow plants for my research.LIKE this almost one year was over.

One day my brother sent a cover that I got job in Canara bank and I was supposed to join at STC,Bangalore on 23/01/1978.It was almost 20 jan. Actually they were not interested in my joining clerical post. because al of them were gazetted officers.If I continued my research. oneday I too would acquire doctorate.But when I told my colleagues in the department, most of them advised me to join the batch. Because in those days , we had senior research fellow Malakondaiah ,who had come back to research because he could not secure a job even with a Ph.D.So I came home and tolld my father that I would quit research and join the bank. THere was protest from all around, even from our neighbors. Generally if we are cornered we feel like rebelling. So. I was adament and complete dthe formalitiesd to quit research because by that time I was getting UGCfellowship.