"........I fondly recall a meeting that we five -- Abad Ahmed , Somnath Chattopadhyay , Ishwar Dayal , Francis Menezes and Suresh Srivastava had at the Conference Centre of NTL (1966) to discuss about the foundation of a society in India on the pattern of NTL. The dream that we envisioned came to fruition in the shape of Indian Society for Applied Behavioural Science (ISABS) in 1971......"

----Somnath Chattopadhyay