Dear Vijay, For the last six months after coming at NCBS I have been searching documentation on Prof Obaid Siddiqi but could not find anything except few lines in Wikipedia! I am extremely surprised that we are still not motivated to write about someone who put India into the map of Biological Sciences after Dr(?) Salim Ali... I am writing this because we still have the time & opportunity to explore Him... If anyone(or a group) takes the intiative we will not have to repent later...