I am now having a lot of time sitting in the US. I go back to some of my Facebook posts and saw this regarding the year 2013. 2013 has been a good year. It was a year full of many thrills and achievements and also few ups and downs. I had to start planning for the Women's world congress coming in 2014. I completed my term as the Director Women's studies in March. I joined as the head of the Department of History in June. I can see many of my students doing well and I am hoping, Jeeva, Vitsou, Prabhu, Han , Ashita and Archana will be able to submit their Ph.d. My son Varun also completed one year in his Ph.D programme in Bridgeport. I was able to see all my three sons and daughter in law, Sankalp and Neha in Washington, Varun in Bridgeport and Tarun who came from China.
This was also a good year for three of my students settled well. Lavanya completed a year in Osmania University. Zuali got lectureship in Mizoram University and Harish joined my own Alma mater University of Allahabad as a lecturer. I also got an Invitation to deliver the key note address in a major International Conference in Brazil, got the Senior Academic Fellowship of the Indian Council of Historical Research ( ICHR ),and finally the Visiting Professorship to France. Somu retired and finally he was able to spend some time at home and we traveled to France together.
In all a good year.
