Two Significant Lives

Meghnad Saha was bom on 6 October 1893 at Seoratali, a village of erstwhile East Bengal, now in Bangladesh. A boy from a very poor family, he started his primary education at Simulia and later joined the Collegiate School at Dacca. A brilliant boy with a photographic memory and an aptitude for learning, Meghnad became the favourite student of his teachers.