Please note that the posts on The Blogs are contributed by third parties. The opinions, facts and any media content in them are presented solely by the authors, and neither The Times of Israel nor its partners assume any responsibility for them. Please contact us in case of abuse. In case of abuse, “ Dr. Chittar Manohar meant a combination of simplicity, nobility, depth of science, humility and ideals! Such people are true diamonds” – Prof. D.O. Shah, Emeritus Professor of Chemical Engineering & Anesthesiology, University of Florida, Gainesville (USA) Whenever, and wherever I have met Dr. Rajiv Desai, who currently works for Maharashtra Pollution Control Board, Mumbai, his topic of discussion with me invariably is how his career was shaped by Dr. C. Manohar. Rajiv had done his Ph.D. with Dr. Manohar at Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC), Mumbai in 1983, and as a Ph.D. student, he had benefitted immensely through his interactions with Dr. C. Manohar, a famous soft matter scientist. But Rajiv is not alone. He is among very many researchers who learned to do frontline scientific research from Dr. Manohar, largely due to his helpful nature and a big-brotherly charm, which attracted students and young colleagues to him. It is difficult to count the number of his young beneficiaries, which would run into at least 40-50, and they were not just from BARC, they were also from ICT, Mumbai, IIT (Bombay), Mumbai University, and even some colleges, like Jhunjhunwala College in Mumbai. And once these aspiring young researchers came into Manohar’s contact, each one of them became his fan for a life-time.