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 north-eastern 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.