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ASPIRANT'S GUIDE for advanced study, and students from all parts of the country, came there for higher education.
One of the rules for admission to this university was that the student must have reached the minimum age of sixteen years at the time of admission.
A new student who was only fourteen years old, wrote sixteen years to be his age in the admission form, as all the other students were doing. He did not know the rule. During his first year, at the University he came to know about the rule and realized his mistake.
He felt deeply sorry for his false statement, approached the principal of his college and made a confession. He was told that now the mistake could not be corrected. He approached the Registrar of the University and received the same reply. What was to be done now ? How to get his mistake corrected ? AS a punishment for giving false statement, he discontinued his University education for two years ! This student was Shree Ashvinikumar Dutt, who turned out later as a great educationalist in the state of Bengal. (3) It was the year 1814, when landlords were very powerful in Bengal. In a small village of Hoogli district, there was a landlord named Ramanand Rai. He was a liar, proud, unjust, and utterly selfish. He had monopolized power in his own hands and would act only at his own will.
Once he had a conflict with an ordinary man. The landlord decided to assert his power and therefore raised a false allegation against him and he needed somebody as a witness.
A person named Khudiram lived in this village. He was truthful and he loved justice. The landlord thought this man would give evidence in his favor. He approached him and said, "I hope you will come to the court and give evidence in my favor."
Khudiram replied, "I always state what is true." The landlord said, "No, you have to state in the court, just what I say."
Khudiram did not agree
This enraged the landlord so much that he decided to take revenge on him. He snatched away his vast land within six months and auctioned his house. Ultimately, Khudiram was forced to leave his native village and had to settle down in a village
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