Subash K Jha caught up with Amitbah Bachchan who is in the UK to receive a doctorate from a university in Leicester in Britain.
Excerpts from an interview:
The De Montfort University in Leicester is conferring a doctorate on you. How does Dr Bachchan sound to you?
Dr Bachchan was my father! With a PhD in English literature from Cambridge onAmitabh-03Bachchan.jpg WB Yeats and occultism in 1954, he was perhaps the first Indian to get this distinction from that university. None of my achievements, honours and degrees can and will ever match that.
Jhansi University conferred a doctorate on me the year before last, De Montfort does it this month and, the Delhi University wishes an honorary doctorate for me at the end of the year.
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