They are involved with heart, kidney and cornea transplant programmes, among other things. Hectic best defines a student's life here, yet a gymnasium, tennis court, swimming pool and library offer respite after a hard day. Senior professors earn much less than colleagues who practise in the private health sector. Yet, they do not complain. All the expertise that they gather over the years is passed on to the students.
Students bask in the warmth, kick a ball and return to class late in the evening.
No surprise then that eight of the top 10 joint engineering exam entrants of 1997 chose otherwise sleepy Kanpur. IIT Powai's academic flexibility isn't any less. The famous Mood Indigo apart, this year will see the start of a technofest featuring virtual intercontinental scientific debates. And successfully too. Every 18 something youngster in the country who has commerce in his heart, it follows, will have SRCC imprinted in his brain.