AFVOA Newletter August 2020

Section 6 – eConnect Reviews CV 2 No. 02 / 2020 Page 207 of 237 6 Acclaimed Passion of a Committed Professional – Wild Life Photography (Meeting with Ms Rathika Ramasami) Wg Cdr C Ravishankar Genre: eConnect Review Straight from the Heart Series #7 nity in diversity – the dictum that defines India is nowhere more pronounced than in the Armed Forces - both among the serving as well as the Veterans. More of the latter in our context. This diversity poses the most healthiest of challenges for the Managing Committee in cherry-picking the subjects for the fortnightly meetings. But the challenges are even more acute when the Committee looks at the plethora of universally appealing and intellectually stimulating subjects. The upside of this challenge is that the Committee is never going to run out of topics. It’s a problem of plenty and not poverty. Is there such a thing called a male bastion any more? Very archaic expression, syntactically and semantically. In the context of the woman achievers of our times, our generation is lucky to see the gradual disappearance of the invisible glass ceiling. If flying a high-performance fighter aircraft is demanding, it is no less challenging to step into the lion’s den and conduct one’s assignment as business as usual. Enter Ms Rathika Ramasamy and her engrossing passion for wildlife photography. A down-to-earth, unassuming and a no-frills Speaker, whose captivating photographs did all the talking. U