GUWAHATI, India — An Indian
man who just entered his 100th year and retired as a court
judge 39 years ago has enrolled at university, insisting it
is never too late to learn.
"There is no age limit for
acquiring knowledge," Bholaram Das told AFP in the
northeastern city of Guwahati, where he will pursue a
doctorate on the role his native village played in the
spread of a particular stream of Hinduism.
Das, who has five sons, one
daughter, 10 grandchildren, and a great-grandchild, was born
on October 16, 1911, when India was a British colony, and
turned 99 this weekend.
"I had a very fulfilling 100
years, having been a teacher, dabbled with politics by
joining the Congress party in 1945, became a lawyer, then a
magistrate, and retired as a judge in 1971," Das said.
"A 100-year-old student is
indeed a rarity anywhere in the world," Guwahati University
Vice Chancellor Okhil Kumar Medhi said.
- (AFP)
