In India, and we’re talking now about the late ‘70s early ‘80s, I had a sponsored tour of India and the tour took me first to New Delhi and then to Jaipur in Rajasthan down to Bombay and to see some of the institutes down there. 

In Delhi I went of course to see the Indian Institute of Technology which had just at that stage been built.  As in America, where they have their land grant universities, in India, after the separation of India and Pakistan - and we’re talking 1948 now - the Indian Institutes of Technology were started.  They are superb institutions modelled on Imperial College and MIT more or less with their own Indian aspects to it but they are highest quality research and undergraduate teaching in the sciences and engineering and I went to the New Delhi Indian Institute of Technology and to the Indian National Science Laboratories.  Both of those I was enormously impressed with and the work they were doing and I also appreciated that they were both air conditioned because at the time I was visiting, which was just pre-monsoon, it was pretty hot and pretty oppressive.