A Nobel Prize-winning poet, a pioneering scientist and one of the world’s wealthiest industrialists would appear to have little in common. But that’s the thing about a Jesuit education: it forms students not for a single path, but for excellence in whatever path they choose. Rabindranath Tagore, Jagadish Chandra Bose and Lakshmi Mittal all received education in Jesuit institutions in Calcutta, part of a tradition whose influence over more than 165 years has reached far beyond Bengal.