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At age twenty-three, after a brief stint of teaching at Calcutta University, I, accompanied by Kalpana (Bose), proceeded to Britain on a Commonwealth Scholarship. The scholars from different parts of India were asked to assemble in Delhi, from where we were to take the international flight. The only experience I had of an air flight before was when I flew from Kolkata to Guwahati, representing Calcutta University in an inter-university debating competition. That flight experience had not been good, as our propeller-driven Dakota plane had hit a supposed ‘air pocket’. So I had some unnecessary trepidation for the long Delhi-London
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