It's indeed good to know that Optom. Dipti Gogate is now a "Professor in Optometry" at Bharati Vidyapeeth University, Pune. To keep the records straight, however, I must say that Optom. N. Sukumaran is supposed to be the first person to have enjoyed the status of a "Professor" at Aravind Eye Hospitals, Madurai. Nevertheless, Dipti is surely the "First Woman Professor", and my heartiest congratulations to her for bringing laurels to optometry in India. Dipti seems to be having a natural urge to keep herself informed. Long long ago, when she was a BSc (Hons) Ophthalmic Techniques student at Dr. R. P. Centre of Ophthalmic Sciences in New Delhi, she came to me for becoming a life-subscriber to Optometry Today (the September 2008 issue of which carries names of 50 optometrists who kept optometry in India invigorating - notably among these being Amod Gogate, N Sukumaran and Rajesh Wadhwa).
Dr. Narendra Kumar
