Dear Suzanne, 

I am shocked and very much saddened to learn from this message about the passing away of my dear Dutch colleague Dr Maarten Bode, specialist in Ayurveda and since the beginning co-editor of eJIM, the electronic Journal of Indian Medicine founded by Gerrit Jan Meulenbeld and Roelf Barkhuis.

Condolences to you and other family-members, friends and colleagues of Maarten. 

I now see that his passing away is already mentioned in the recently updated page devoted to him on the Dutch South Asia Studies website, which also provides further details about his scientific career and publications: 

His interest was especially in the social-cultural and even commercial aspects of Indian medicine, Āyurveda, including what can be called, perhaps, neo-Āyurveda. 

The last time we met and were together was at an International Ayurveda conference in Leiden, Netherlands, in 2018, co-sponsored by the Indian embassy in the Netherlands and the Indian Ministry of Ayush (a conference also "Exploring a 340-Year Relationship between Netherlands and India" and celebrating the "epic 17th century Dutch treatise on medicinal plants of the Western Ghats of South India called Hortus Malabaricus"). Later on, we,  Maarten and other board members, still exchanged several messages on articles for publication in eJIM (most recent article by Kenneth Zysk and  Tsutomu Yamashita, https://indianmedicine.nl/article/view/42519). 

I look forward to reading what is mentioned as his most recent publication: “Revitalizing Ayurveda: looking for productive entanglements.” Asian medicine (Leiden, Netherlands), 2025-02, p.1-31

Jan Houben