Fit India should also mean the courage to ask tough questions | The Indian Express

Fit India should also mean the courage to ask tough questions | The Indian Express

Written by Swami Agnivesh |Updated: September 14, 2019 1:59:53 pm

The writer is a Vedic scholar and social activist

Fit India should also mean the courage to ask tough questions

How can we create Fit India, the PM needs to ask, if we do not pay at least equal attention to developing an intellectual culture? Medical sciences aver that physical fitness is incomplete without mental and intellectual fitness.

Modi did speak of physical and martial bravery, which has its place in the life of a nation. He did not, however, speak about moral bravery, which is even more quintessentially human than the courage to wield the sword or exterminate enemies. (PTI Photo)

Prime Minister Narendra Modi is something of an enigma. He radiates energy. He is decisive. He is an expert in springing surprises. He does not dodge the non-stereotypical. Yet, there is every chance — going by what we have seen so far — that he may end up like all else before him. This prospect may not occur to the vast army of admirers and time-servers that surround him. But it is real all the same.