The Discovery Of India - pg. 121

Ramanujan's brief life and death are symbolic of conditions in India. Of our millions how few get any education at all, how many live on the verge of starvation; of even those who get some education, how many have nothing to look forward to but a clerkship in some office on pay that is usually far less than the unemployment dole in England. If life opened its gates to them and offered them food and healthy conditions of living and education and opportunities of growth, how many among these millions would be eminent scientist, educationists, technicians, industrialists, writers and artists, helping to build a new India and a new-world?