Thread by @SubhadipNandy16

He started off his day with wrestling practice. Then full body massage by a pahalwan
Could eat a cooked whole goat in a single meal. Then could also eat 50 mangos. Then around 20 coconuts and a few litres of milk.

Before wresting used to practice with a "mugur" ( weights) for a hour to get his body ready for the rigours of wrestling.

When he spoke out against the superstitions and fundamentalism of hinduism , was threatened that he would be murdered. His well wishers advised him to be careful . He used to laugh and say " They live on rice and bananas, they don't have the strength or courage to take me on"

Wrote extensively against Muslim fundamentalism too and got on the wrong side of Islamic brigade.
Later went against Christian fundamentalism too 😄

A person who could recite the 7 kandas of Ramayan from memory, a person who learnt Hebrew in 3 months to read Bible in its original and defeat a Christian bishop in open debate is no normal human .

He was equally fluent in Persian, Latin, Greek and Hebrew other than the standard Sanskrit and English ( Bengali was still not a written language)
He wrote a book in Persian with a forward in Arabic, it's still considered an important historical document.

He founded schools and colleges which are in existence even today.
( I studied in one of them paying college fees of Rs. 7 per month)

He is known as the first " Modern man" among Bengalis, the father of the Bengali Renaissance.

Happy birthday Sir, they don't make men like you anymore 🙏

~Raja Ram Mohan Roy (1774-1833)

BTW, he also started the first Indian newspaper in any Indian language. His forays in journalism also covered a Persian journal called Mirat -ul-Akbar

He promoted the pure ethical Vedanta school of philosophy. His setting up the Vedanta college was aimed at promoting subjects like Mathematics, Geography and Latin which, he felt, were necessary to help the Indians keep pace with the rest of the world.