 At the University of Delhi, Professor P. K. Tripathi had an important influence on his work.From 1980 until 1982 and then again in 1985, he studied and researched in Germany at the South Asia Institute of the University of Heidelberg, and at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law.The result was not only a fruition of learned academics, but also lifelong association with leading German scholars.