Appreciations

The efforts of inclusion of the non-conventional visual aids in the form of the collages and poetry have been appreciated by various eminent personalities at different occasions. A few of them are listed below:

1. Dated April 14, 2014, 13:09:57 (Monday) on Indian Wild Flowers

Lovely flowers in that collage, maybe not wild!

-roald

2. Dated Dec 15, 2013, 18:29:07 (Sunday)

Dr. Sukarma Thareja’s inventive collages play ingeniously with the ideas of chemistry. And they are appealing! With her excellent sense for color, the collages meld text and image into an attractive whole”

Roald Hoffmann, Cornell University, Nobel Laureate in Chemistry

3. Dated 13 Nov 2013 6:29pm

Dear Prof. Sukarma Thareja,

I write to appreciate your Educational Collage collections. I have gone

through them, and want to state they are wonderful. It takes a lot of

ingenuity to have such collections.

They are very good aid for teaching chemistry even to someone who

ordinarily may not find chemistry study interesting. I recommend it to all

who teach chemistry at the foundation level in the university.

Best Regards!

Obasi Nnamdi Lawrence (PhD)

Post Doctoral Fellow

. Department of Chemistry,

Supramolecular Inorganic Chemistry Unit,

Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India.

Phone: +918173050117

E-mail: obasi@iitk.ac.in

. Department of Pure & Industrial Chemistry,

University of Nigeria, 410001 Nsukka.

E-mails: nnamdi.obasi@unn.edu.ng, obasinl@yahoo.com

Phone: +234 (0)803 7717717

4. Dated 26 May 2013

Subject: collage-History of Atom through postage stamps,Statistical Thermodynamics

Thanks, Sukarna, these collages of yours are fun.

The more pictures, the better the collages. I think one could play with the idea of randomness and with taking averages in the statistical mechanics collage. In the stamps collage you could play up the idea that letters (bearing stamps) were important in days past in scientific communication.

Cordially,

Roald

5. Dated 03 March 2012 10:04AM

To:

Sukarma Thareja (sukarmathareja@hotmail.com)

Subject Gases

Hi Sukarma, this is wonderful!

I'd love to include this in the upcoming issue to show collage in a practical application.

Have you made any other science based collages?

All the best,

-John (John Hart is famous collagist from Australia,and editor of Collage-zine “collagista” published from Austraia.)

6. Dated 3 Aug 2012 18:09 PM (Friday)

Subject: collage-liquid

Excellent. Sukarma,

Liquids are a chaotic, disordered state of matter, molecules jammed in, jiggling against each other. You have captured some of that.

Cordially

roald (Dr. Roald Hoffmann, Cornell University, Nobel Laureate in Chemistry)

7. Dated March 25, 2012 1:29 PM (Sunday)

Subject: collages,Indian Tiger,Cover of Book

Those are good collages, Sukarma,

Art and science combine!

Roald (Dr. Roald Hoffmann, Cornell University, Nobel Laureate in Chemistry)

8. Dated 07 March 2012 10:04AM

To:

Sukarma Thareja (sukarmathareja@hotmail.com)

My pleasure!

Lots of people have commented on how much they enjoyed seeing your collage. It's nice to see art operating functionally as well as aesthetically.

I look forward to seeing more of your educational collages!

All the best,

-John(John Hart is famous collagist from Australia,and editor of Collage-zine “collagista” published from Austraia.)

9. Dear Suharma,

Cordially,

- Roald (Dr. Roald Hoffmann, Cornell University, Nobel Laureate in Chemistry)

10. Dated July 24, 2011 12:18 PM (Sunday)

Thanks for the collages, and the explanation too, Sukarna – much is going on in the collages (which is good, they have depth, one can keep on looking at them)!

Best regards

- Roald (Dr. Roald Hoffmann, Cornell University, Nobel Laureate in Chemistry)

11. Dated 13 Mar 2011 23:21:15 (Sunday)

Hello, Sukarma,

That is a nice collage you have made. The peacock is indeed a beautiful bird, and I was happy to see so me in the natural habitat in Bandhavgarh National park in Madhya Pradesh.

With cordial greetings,

- Roald (Dr. Roald Hoffmann, Cornell University, Nobel Laureate in Chemistry)

12. Dear Sukarma,

Thank you for your recent submission to The Voices Project. I'm delighted to inform you that "Little Quanta" will be published on July 9, 2016. We will be sure to send you a link once it's posted to check over on that day.

Thank you so much for your contribution to The Voices Project!

Best regards,

Denise

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13. Dear Sukarna,

That is a heartfelt poem on pollution. Very nice. At end, you have

For this pathetic, puzzeled plight,

I myself is amused and confused .

Please change to puzzled, and to “am amused”

Cordially

Roald Hoffmann

Cornell University, Nobel Laureate in Chemistry

14. Sukarma Rani Thareja is an Associate Professor of chemistry in a PG college, Christ Church

College, Kanpur, India. She has teaching and research experience of several years. Her works has

been published in National/International conferences/Journal. In order to inculcate personal and

creative interests in students she engages them in summarizing lectures after finishing a chapter in

their own words and their own ways. On her part, to make students enjoy attending classes

(academic / co curricular) she composes small poems, educational collages to introduce

/recapitulate her lessons. This way students have an opportunity to combine chemistry information

with their personal reactions.

poem-Quantum Chemistry ageing

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