In one of the slokas of Aitareya Brahmana it is said :
“Charanvai madhu vindati, charantsvadu mudumbaram
Suryashya pashya shremanam, yo na tandrayate charan,
Charaivati, charaivati”
The meaning of the above Sanskrit sloka is : (Bees) Find honey on wandering, (Birds) find Udumbara fruit (a tasty fruit) on moving. Look at the eminence of the Sun, who (Sun) never sleeps and keeps on moving. Move on, Move on.
Probably Prof. Medhi followed this rich Indian philosophy throughout his life and so had attained a position which very few of his contemporary Indians reached in the field of Mathematics and Statistics. He was born to a culturally rich family of Ramdia Village in Kamrup district of Assam in 1924. His father Binandi Chandra Medhi who got his Law degree from Calcutta University, joined the Law profession and shifted to Dibrugarh, a prominent place in upper Assam. So, Professor Medhi spent his childhood in Dibrugarh. His mother Kadambari Medhi, though did not have any formal degree, yet, she was a worthy daughter of Rai Bahadur Kaliram Medhi, one of the first few Assamese officers of the Assam Civil Service who is better known for his contributions to Assamese language and literature.
Professor Medhi had a very brilliant academic career since his childhood and he completed his Master's degree in Pure Mathematics from Calcutta University with two gold medals : one for securing first position and the second for securing record marks. In 1948, he joined Cotton College of Guwahati, Assam as Lecturer in Mathematics for a very brief period because he was inducted to the Mathematics and Statistics department of Gauhati University in 1949. In 1952,
