THE FORGOTTEN PROPHET OF EMERGING INDIA

THE FORGOTTEN PROPHET OF EMERGING INDIA 

Raja Rammohun Roy was a seminal giant of the Indian renaissance. For him to have been thus forgotten by our nation at large is a shame. He was the founder-father of the modern age in India, the first truly universal modern man perhaps of the entire world, a harmoniser of the East and the West, a junction point in human civilisation. For him to be thus neglected in national affairs is indicative of the fact that we are not truly progressing as a nation the way we could but are only making smaller strides towards progress than we need to to hasten our national evolution. Traditional trappings are still binding us and we need to disentangle ourselves, while preserving heritage and history, to develop faster. To that end I pen these lines tonight with the hope that it may kindle a few hearts and minds to taking up the study of this renaissance man of the then emerging India, this prophet of progress of the yet emerging India. If we study his life, heed his message, we will move into the modern world that much faster and with that much secure step. My salutations to this heroic spirit of eternal India. 

Written by Sugata Bose