Retired professor: I have had the pleasure of getting acquainted with Dr. Bindu M Krishna professionally by our association in jointly mentoring aspirants for doing their Ph. D in Cochin University. This getting together on engineering lines, also led to getting to know Bindu personally, her strengths in guiding others to perform, in her singular desire to achieve end objectives by constantly motivating self and the team to get end results, and characteristically going beyond set boundaries and treaded paths, typical for research minds. I take this opportunity to wish Bindu and her team in CRIM a bright and eventful future ahead.