Naren Datta was born in Calcutta in 1863. His parents, hoping for a bright future for their precocious son, arranged for a good British education. His future would be bright indeed. In fact, the future of Hindus everywhere would improve radically thanks to Naren Datta. But not because of his British training.
Naren's European schoolmates bequeathed to him the same gift they almost every Hindu schoolchild entrusted to their care : complete contempt for Hinduism. Naren would roll his eyes when he saw Hindu holy men on the streets. Or the bhairavi's, the women yogis. How sad that these people lived in complete superstition, never having benefited, as he had, from an enlightened European education!
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