Jakob, that is amazing, people from that area of the world are extremely resourceful, India, Nepal, Bangladesh, Buthan, Sri Lanka, there are scarce resources in those countries but they are very imaginative and capable people, sometimes I feel bad that I have the latest technollogy, great DMM, Oscilloscope, spectrum analyzer, etc, and these people who lack many of those things are extremely clever and make the most of what they have, my utmost respect.
Engineering students over there don't have money to pay for college textbooks, so there are international editions of the same book but with much lower quality paper, soft cover, worse printing and less overall quality, the cover is a generic cover (usually red), with only the title of the book, the author and publisher. I know it because I've bought several of them online. Their universities are some of the best in the world (for example the IIT or IIS in India) yet those universities are very very humble, still they go through all of their limitations and make it. I once saw a documentary of the IIT, the teaching level is higher than MIT, they lack the amount of research, investment, facilities, etc.. bt I believe its easier to get into MIT than to IIT, some of them actually get admited to several US universities but prefer to go to IIT, and the goal of most of the IIT students is to become an engineer and migrate to the US, Canada or Europe.
I love a joke by an Indian comedian talking about their "Indian Space Research Organisation", he said "Its like NASA but with less Indians" ;D
