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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.