Motorola learned through a colleague that Dr. Medhi was visiting his son and daughter in the US. We contacted him to see if he would be willing to present a brief series of seminars and academic colloquia to our top researchers in queueing theory. He agreed on condition that we assist him in obtaining proper visa classification.
It is a remarkable stroke of luck that Medhi is available to us in this fashion and is willing to interrupt his vacation with his family to provide us with his expertise. We respectfully request that he be granted the (appropriate) non-immigrant (visa) classification. Obviously his participation is of enormous benefit to the Iridium Project's success, and hence, to the stability and expansion of job opportunities to our US work force".
Apart from being a world class scientist he was a truly 'cultured' man in the truest sense of the term who never allowed anyone to feel to what a giant one is talking to. He was simple, witty and even humorous at times. He had a feeling for the common people. Before his death he donated his eyes and those have already been successfully implanted into the eyes of some blind person.
With the fame and glory Prof. J. Medhi earned from the early part of his academic life, he could have easily settled in any one of the advanced countries of the world and earn more name and fame for himself. But his rare patriotism and inner urge to do something for the people of his motherland pulled him back to Assam and India. Prof. Athreya, an Ex-Prof of IISc Bengalore and IOWA State University, USA rightly observed.
