Field notes, v1753
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Stobbe, R. 1963 Assam Trip 52 New Delhi Jan. 15 We then went to the Municipal Corporation H.S.S. which contains 450 students and saw a much better group physics lab in operation. They were working on the same problem as the previous group. Their intelligent-looking teacher, Ved Ratna, spoke excellent English. The school is located on Rose Ave.- Phone 44085. B.K. Thaper is the principal. He said they gave no biology because they could not find a satisfactory teacher. He urged me to go to a town called Shardagram, minute to Karachi where Keshod... airport I could see lions and other big game in the wild. A former student of his is principal of the Residential School there and asked drive me the 12 miles out of town to the animal protection area. Ghandi started the school. The principal is R.C. Chaturani. The animal locality is Somater. Thaper was a former student of Negam. He has been to the Univ. of Wisconsin as a Fulbright fellow. Negam, incidentally, has been to Canada. Negam feels there must be more than manuals to upgrade Indian science.