Fifty years ago, he came to India, bringing a bit of France with him. Now, in 1999, he has returned to France, taking with him a bit of India. When Michel Postel arrived in India in 1949 as a pharmacologist, he brought the latest French drugs for the newly independent India and its fledgling pharmaceuticals industry. And on his return to France, he donated his entire art collection to a museum dedicated to Indian and Chinese art.