Nehru at TISS, Deonar (1954) on TISS’ intervention in partition relief work
"We found the difference in their work and the work of many others who were earnest and had done their best, but who did not have the training to do it well. There was the difference between the trained workers and the merely enthusiastic workers."
Evert Berger ,Special Representative, UN relief and Rechabilitation Administrations, on TISS partition relief work, February, 1948
"I want to send you a few lines to record my admiration of a contribution which the TISS has made to the solution of the refugee problem... I shall not easliy forget the hours that I was priviledged to spend with your students at they were doing at Kurushektra, their initiative, keeness a ns powers of organsation. they knew what they were doing, what wanted to be a done and how to do it."