WHY SO LATE AT 48?

WHY SO LATE AT 48?

Strange it is that boys like Khudiram Bose, Kartar Singh Sarabha and Bhagat Singh, and youths like Sukhdev, Rajguru, Chandrasekhar Azad, Rajendranath Lahiri and innumerable other revolutionaries fought for freedom so early in their lives, lived and died for it, but Gandhi had to be 48 before he launched his first struggle for the same. Rather late entry and with unwholesome consequences for our motherland in the long run. Rash Behari Bose, Bagha Jatin, Subhas Chandra Bose, Hem Chandra Ghosh and countless others had plunged into the fray when in the blossom of their youth and yet Gandhi watched proceedings from a distance and did nothing till as late as 1917 when he was two years short of 50. One wonders why.