98 Year Old Man Gets MA Degree

A 98-year-old man, who wished to have the tag of being a postgraduate, finally completed his master's programme on Monday.

Nonagenarian Raj Kumar Vaishya fulfilled his long-due dream by securing a master's in economics from the Nalanda Open University (NOU) 79 years after he graduated in the same subject from Agra University in 1938.

Born on April 1, 1920, he had cleared his matriculation examination in 1934. After his graduation in 1938 with economics as his major, Vaishya had also completed his LLB in 1940.

He plans to write poetry on poverty.

Read more of this story of determination in Times of India...