Dhaka, Dec. 13 -- Tetsu Nakamura was a physician who after graduating from the Faculty of Medical Sciences of Kyushu University started his career as a medical practitioner like many of his colleagues in the same profession. However, he had an added passion; love for insects, particularly butterflies. This later led him to join a mountaineering expedition team from Fukuoka as an accompanying doctor, as he thought the trip might allow him to see some rare butterflies.

The team visited Pakistan in 1978 and Nakamura saw not only butterflies; but also for the first time encountered the plight of rural poor in remote mountain areas with no doctors and no medical facilities. When local people heard that a doctor was in the expedition team as t...