Hillary Clinton wanted to come to India as Fulbright student

As a student at the prestigious liberal arts college Wellesley in the late 1960s, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton had harboured hopes of coming to India as a Fulbright scholar but "ended up" at Yale when the programme was halted due to "geopolitical" reasons.

"When I was a senior at Wellesley, my first hope was to get a Fulbright to India," Clinton said.

She instead ended up going to Yale Law School after the "the Fulbright programme was put on pause at that time... for reasons having to do with geopolitics."

In a speech in Washington, Clinton said when she had started at Wellesley College, she had only been out of the country once "to the Canadian side of the Niagara Falls."

Clinton, who graduated from the Massachusetts-based women's liberal arts college in 1969, said she had wanted to travel to India after graduating from Wellesley.