Alumni Association Bulletin, All India Institute of Hygiene and Public Health, Calcutta
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"It was a Saturday night in the month of February, 1953. The moon was shining bright in a cloudless sky and cold breeze was blowing. A camp fire was burning in the lawn of the S. N. Mullick Health Centre in the village of Singur. Sixty students from all over India, who had come for training in rural public health work were sitting round the camp fire after dinner. Some were in a joyful state, cracking jokes
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