Mr. Hari Pada Roychoudhury of Karimganj, a native of Sylhet of undivided India became a street boy after the partition of Bengal due to the “Non-Violence” of Gandhi. However, he earned a Master of Science degree in 1964, an LLB from GU in India, and a PhD from the UMIST of the United Kingdom in 1977. He left the job in the UK and returned to India for the service of his countrymen. He served Cotton College as Professor of Chemistry till retirement in 1999.