chitpAvana (shikhA_img), great patriot, a fine sanskrit poet (even a chitrakavi) in his boyhood [IMG, TW], good scholar of the veda-s (taking a philological angle), “endeavored to position Hindu thought as a capable player in the arena of modern philosophical discourse”, who said “svarAj is our right, and we shall have it”, and went to jail; who initiated the svadeshI movement, and boycott of English administration. [nehru1, vid_trailer1]
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लोकमान्यः शाण्डिल्य इति ज्ञायते।
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Roused the people with newspaper kesarI, gaNesha-pUjA, shivAjI-jayanti. Spearheaded education efforts. Partly inspired chApekar brothers.
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“Despite being personally opposed to early marriage, Tilak was against the 1891 Age of Consent bill, seeing it as interference with Hinduism and a dangerous precedent. The act raised the age at which a girl could get married from 10 to 12 years.” This is the kind of foresight and clarity that set the great patriot from contemporaries.
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A man of great emotional robustness IMG. Mandalay routine - KPP.
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BG Tilak was homeschooled till age 11. And he hated school. Once he left: For full one year, he neglected his studies and devoted practically all his time exclusively to physical culture.