Lillian Carter, President Jimmy Carter's mother, was a Peace Corps volunteer in Vikhroli, Mumbai, in the late 1960s.
At the age of 68, she worked as a Peace Corps nurse, with some 5,000 Godrej employees. When she returned there in 1977 -- her eldest son now resident in the White House -- she was entertained by a group of 10-year-olds -- the babies she had immunised a decade earlier. In the picture to the left, 'Miss Lillian' -- as she was known in Plains, Georgia, where she lived with her family -- is seen with a teacher on her 1977 visit. Georgia's Emory University set up the Lillian Carter Center for International Nursing to celebrate her work in Mumbai.
Last year, Jimmy Carter, his wife Rosalyn and scores of Habitat for Humanity volunteers, including an actor named Brad Pitt and a cricket legend named Steve Waugh, landed in Lonavala, near Mumbai, to build homes for the dispossessed in the area.
And in the photograph to the right, Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong, Edwin 'Buzz' Aldrin and Michael Collins climb a full-scale model of the lunar landing modules in Mumbai, 1970.
Also read: When the world came to India
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