Rajiv Gandhi was born in Mumbai on August 20, 1944 to Indira and Feroze Gandhi. In 1951, Rajiv and Sanjay were admitted to Shiv Niketan School, where teachers said rajiv was shy and introverted, and "he was very interested in painting and drawing. In 1954, he was admitted to Welham Boys School, Dehradun and Doon School, Dehradun, where Sanjay joined him two years later. Rajiv was sent to London in 1961 for A-level studies. Rajiv was also educated at Ecole d'Huminite, an international boarding school in Switzerland. From 1962 to 1964, he studied engineering at Trinity College in Cambridge, but did not pursue a degree. In 1966, he started a course in mechanical engineering at Imperial College London, but did not complete it. Gandhi was not really studious enough, as he later admitted.