The remedy against cowardice is not physical culture but the braving of dangers. So long as the parents of the middle class Hindus, themselves timid, continue to transmit their timidity by keeping their grown-up children in cotton-wool, so long will there be their desire to shun danger and run no risks. They will have-to dare to leave their children alone, let them run risks and even at times get killed in so doing. The puniest individual may have a stout heart. The most muscular Zulus cower before English lads. Each village has to find out its stout hearts.
Young India, 29-5-’24
Bapu,
Nothing has changed since. Wonder why! The average self-righteous Hindu middle class father continues to define the course of his child’s life. Many insecure parents treat their children like pension plans.
