I share a family connection from my mother's side with Narendranath Datta - born OTD in 1863. More popularly known as Swami Vivekananda he seeded the idea of establishing an Institution of Science in the mind of J.N. Tata - which came to be @iiscbangalore.  An ascetic, a businessman and a chance meeting in a voyage across the sea led to a vision for an institution where eventually I studied for my PhD and where one of my students is now a faculty. There are these bridges drawn across time and space that appear miraculous; but really those bridges are drawn by visionary humans who converted an intangible inspiration to a tangible reality.

Source of letter from Tata to Vivekananda: IISc Archives (Origin of IISc)
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