Poetry is based upon emotions and imaginations, feelings and passions and reasoning power, while science is popularly believed to be completely based on dry facts and figures. Everything is clear and vivid in science due to rigid facts and figures. Science deals with the physical world and the things as they are, it just observes nature and beauty but doesn't spiritualise it like poetry. Poetry and science seem like dealing with opposite worlds- one with emotions and the other with completely facts, trials, experimentation and results.
Meet BAU woman scientist Dr Nandani Kumari, Assistant Professor, Dept of Animal Genetics & Breeding. Despite being a gold medallist in her academic career, her emotions as a poetess run from limitless sky to unfathomable ocean. She has many feathers to her cap. Her YouTube videos on animal genetics are very popular among students and scholars in India and abroad.
Besides a genetics scholar, she is an unmatched orator, impressive anchor, voracious reader, prolific writer and singer also. Fluency like that of her, both in English and Hindi, is a rarity in BAU. Her collection of Hindi poetry has been published under the title 'Maa (mother)'. Rivers, mountains, plateaus, farm fields, rural life, animals and birds visible from the windows of running trains, pains and predicament flowing on the faces of patients and their attendants in hospitals, beauty of family relations and guardian-like emotions for students instantly become the subjects for her poems.
If one plans to visit BAU, one may make a round of technology park, college of biotechnology, department of soil science, animal and bird farms, department of community science, veterinary hospital etc, but visit to the institution will not be complete in real sense if one does not find an opportunity to hear Dr Nandini Kumari, speaking publicly on the dias/ podium.
Communicating the emotions of her content with hand gestures, facial expression and movement is superb. How she translates her content from spirit to performance is worth listening and seeing. With a new breed of talented scientists like her, the future of BAU appears to be in safe hands.
Known for her impressive oratory skills and emotion-packed poetic compositions in BAU and veterinary fraternity, Dr Nandani says women don't need reservation.
And Indian culture's traditional scriptures have been the main source of knowledge, power and prosperity since millenia. They have always been known for sacrifice and benevolence.
