ABSTRACT
The signs that Janaki was becoming somewhat disgruntled with her work at Wisley would become loud and clear. All that she was doing was good for the propagation of science among the nobility, but this sort of fragmentary work was very unsatisfying to her. At the same time, she found the Wisley Gardens very beautiful and peaceful and she enjoyed living in her little attic flat on top of her laboratory. She had become a colchicine missionary of sorts; her colchicining skills were in high demand, with several young students of plant genetics, nurserymen and gentlemen horticulturists thronging her laboratory. She possessed excellent mentorial skills. The highlight of this chapter is Janaki’s meeting with Nehru in London. Eight years her senior (they were both born in the same month), Nehru and Janaki struck an instant friendship with each other. Nehru would extend an invitation to her to become an advisor to the Ministry of Agriculture. She would accept this because she felt it was time, she did something for her own country.
