Dear Friends, I thank all of you for showing solidarity with me in relation to my "Medical Library Association of India" (MLAI) membership rejection. I am really indebted for the moral support that I got from you all. However, I also got few emails suggesting that there could be some administrative mistake at MLAI office. And thus I should check up with MLAI office. I therefore would like to clarify my perception about this whole issue. Otherwise few of you would take it just an instance of minor lapse on part of MLAI. The following paragraph would clarify that it could not be a random error or some administrative lapse. The rejection was deliberate but done in a manner to leave enough doubts in this episode and get away with it anytime. Friends, I have already mentioned in my previous email that one of my colleagues is an Executive Member of MLAI. He was supposedly asked to increase association membership. While he was leaving for the latest MLAI conference at Chandigarh, he took an application of one my colleague along with him. It appears, he did his best to hand over the application – but nobody took it. He came back and mailed it through post. In the meanwhile, I also got interested in MLAI and posted my application in March. There was enough time gap between these two applications. However, the cheques of these two applications were mailed back in a single envelope addressed to my colleague residence. It means, they already knew who we are and how we are related. Let me inform you all that one of our senior colleague (MLAI member) has already written a letter to MLAI Office bearers for seeking reasons for the refusal. A phone call was also made to an "important" MLAI Office Bearer. We have however not received any clarification or communication till date in this regard. I will be informing this forum as and when I receive any explanation from MLAI. I once again thank to all for the moral support I am getting from you all. I would also like to thank my colleagues for offering withdrawing their MLAI membership. Thanks Sukhdev Singh NIC. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.