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Centenarian PhD

By LIFS November 8, 2010 at 7:35 PM
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A 100-year-old Indian freedom fighter is vying to become the oldest Ph.D. student in the country.

Bholaram Das has enrolled for a PhD in Gauhati University in Assam, where he is being advised by his granddaughter, who is a university professor. Das retired as district court judge in 1971.

 

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