EXHIBIT MANHOOD, MY FRIENDS

EXHIBIT MANHOOD, MY FRIENDS

Bengalis, cultivate martial valour. Take up Chhatrapati Shivaji, Guru Gobind Singhji and Maharana Pratap Singhji as your icons. Exhibit manliness. Give up this debilitating song and dance culture, this soft poetry and little magazine culture and take to learning shooting, archery, horse-riding, body-building, laathhi-wielding and the like. Else, yours is a dead fate awaiting. This weeping romance and pleasure-seeking, this sentimentality and effeminacy of all sorts will finish you off. Swamiji had said, "My life's gospel can be summed up in one word---manhood." Abide by his commandment and follow him like heroes onto the warfield of life with Shivaji, Guru Gobind Singhji and Maharana Pratap Singhji as your commanders. May Swamiji be your spiritual guide! May he drive your effeminacy away! Jai Bhavani!

Written by Sugata Bose