While at Cambridge Dr Homi Bhabha
plunged into extracurricular activities and
sports with a vengeance
Bakhtiar Dadabhoy
This extract from Homi J. Bhabha: A Life by Bakhtiar K. Dadabhoy (Rupa Publications, 2023) has been reprinted in Parsiana with permission from the author and the publishers.
"Science shall be my wife, art my mistress.”
Apart from the fact that Dr Homi Bhabha disliked mechanical engineering and, therefore, did not invest too much of himself in it, there were many distractions for a young man in Cambridge. He plunged into extracurricular activities and sports with a vengeance. Soaked in history and tradition, replete with chapels, Gothic spires and medieval arches, carefully tended lawns and flowing through it all, the gentle river......