I had noticed how Indians had played a big role in the US in technology," says Professor Ross Basset over the phone from Raleigh, North Carolina, days before his arrival in Mumbai for a talk on Indian students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) at Vikhroli's Godrej India Culture Lab. The lecture is the culmination of 12 years of research into the subject, that is now a book — MIT and the Technological Indian, published this February.

 
Ross Basset