On 13th June, 2019, I was at the University of Cambridge and delivered a talk on Indian food and cuisine a historical perspective. They had brought out a beautiful poster and I found this displayed in many places. This was my first visit to Cambridge and I was really fascinated at looking at some of the buildings. Many parts of the town look very medieval though a large number of modern buildings with glass are also coming up. Some of the Colleges too had beautiful architecture especially the King's College. The huge courtyards with the green grass lawns in between two buildings were very appealing. Cambridge University is perhaps one of the oldest University in the world for it was established in1209. It has twenty nine Colleges under its juridiction. Cambridge is named after the river Cam on whose bank it is established. We went around the Archeology and Anthropology museum. Suresh had discussion with the Plant Science department. We got to know about the Tigress Project, Transforming Indias green revolution by research and Empowerment for sustainable food supplies and it has ninety researchers working in this Project. Adam Green and group is also working on Telangana and looking at the water tanks. I met a young scholar Aftab Alam who is from Allahabad and is working here as a post Doctoral fellow. It was great interacting with Adam and the other team members and getting an understanding of their work.
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