In English
TERMITES appear insignificant and innocent in the beginning; they are named 'white ants,' as if they deserve admiration and attention, rather than extermination. For, they multiply fast and destroy in silence the entire structures of the houses of man. Bad habits, imitative tendencies like drink and drugs, gambling and gangsterism - they secure entry into individual and social behaviour noiselessly, in various disguises and then destroy the career of even the toughest and the most upright. The youth of India are succumbing to the siren calls of foreign cultural traits. They are discarding their own precious heritage of reverence towards elders, service of parents, compassion for all beings in distress, humility, simplicity, adherence to truth and attachment to self-respect. Science and technology have encouraged the material out-look, concentrated all effort towards comforts and exaggerated the ego. The same sad decline is happening, more or less, in every country today.