At Crossroads in India

Abstract

Soon after the Toronto meetings Banerji inquired whether I would accept an invitation from the Indian Science Congress to attend their annual session, this time to be held in Patna, the capital of Bihar, in early January 1948. If I were able to accept this invitation I would also be invited to serve as adviser to the Indian Meteorological Service for a period of about ten weeks. I would be expected to visit a few of the major universities and meteorological centers and to give a series of lectures and laboratory instruction at the Central Observatory at Poona, where leading meteorologists would be present during my visit.

Jag ville jag yore ett drömlands son, En infödd av Indialand.

[I wish I were a dreamland’s son, A native of Indialand.]

—Gustav Fröding, Jag ville, jag yore