In 1967-68 I was studying in the final year (1967-68) of the B. Pharmacy course in the Government College of Pharmacy, Bangalore (now Bengaluru) in Karnataka. There was so much of halla gulla about Medicinal Chemistry practical examination that our teacher told us read Morrison and Boyd’s Organic Chemistry book. We had only one copy of the book in the library and we used to get it issued turn by turn for overnight home reading. There was a sigh of relief on the day of the examination when we came to know that the examiner who was to come from North India could not make it. The examiner was none other than Professor Harkishan Singh!. Read More...