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In January of 1992, I spent three weeks in Belgaum, Karnataka, India,
on a UNDP assignment with the Hard Rock Regional Centre of India's
National Institute of Hydrology.
That spring, back in the United States, I shared my observations with my undergraduate hydrology students.
I told them that I had not seen many fat people in India, certainly not in Belgaum.
The last day of the semester, I decided to do a review of the class in an unconventional way:
I would have
every student tell me in a nutshell what he/she had learned.
The students sitting in the front rows, usually the better students,
had a favorite topic that they particularly remembered,
such as the runoff curve number, the unit hydrograph, or the kinematic wave.
As I reached the students sitting in the back of the classroom, one of them said:
"I learned that there are no fat people in India." That was certainly not hydrology, but it
was a lesson nevertheless.
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