As a nuclear physicist author went for post doctoral work to the Rudjer Boskovic Institute at Zagreb, Croatia in the erstwhile Yugoslavia. He stayed in Zagreb for 15 months during 1968-1969 and had occasion to be very intimate with Croatians as colleagues and friends. During this period, he had the occasion to visit 9 European countries viz. Yugoslavia, Italy, Austria, Switzerland, France, Germany, England, Czechoslovakia and Hungary. Thus he could see a bit of ...