Legacy of Veronica in Biology Education: Though Veronica was in the TIFR, Mumbai and later at the NCBS, Bangalore, to us, in the department of Life sciences at the Sophia College for Women, Veronica was always an insider; and our lab was almost an extension of her lab! In fact, if any single person to whom we directly owe, for the establishment of the Neuroscience program at the Sophias, it is Veronica. She had introduced us to the excitement of studying the biological basis of behavior, through that ever green model: the fly, Drosophila. In fact, our students and us did cut our teeth in neuroscience by playing with the fly, as early as in the eighties. Later, we were on another great collaborative venture, when unfortunately she had taken ill and almost permanently shifted to NCBS, Bangalore, from Mumbai. We had just then, initiated a pilot study at the college level involving large number of undergraduate students, in a massive program of screening the RNAi lines of the fly, in the lines of the great collaborative work that has been happening in the US, especially by people like Utpal Banerjee in UCLA , between research scientists on the one hand and undergraduate students and teachers of educational institutions on the other. It will, in fact, be a great tribute to Veronica if scientists from resource-rich centers organize sustainable research programs involving large number of undergraduate students of colleges across the country. As Veronica's mentor and PhD guide Obaid Siddiqi used to say, after all, colleges have an unique asset that research institutes cannot boast: the large number of young hands! The challenge today is, how to dovetail research programs taking care of this ground reality, in India. To us, who had occasions to work with Veronica, there is no doubt about its feasibility; it is only a question of determination, as she had shown time and time again! We celebrate you Veronica!