IIT Bombay

The Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay at Powai, founded in 1958 as the second IIT and the one set up with UNESCO technical assistance from the Soviet Union — a reciprocal of IIT Kharagpur's Western collaboration. The campus between Powai and Vihar lakes was laid out by the planner Charles Correa's firm. Produced the entrepreneurs who built the first wave of Indian IT (Infosys, Flipkart, Zoho co-founders among them) and a disproportionate share of the Indian academic diaspora.