My mother made sure all her daughters had a university education. I wanted to be a banker, but she wanted me to be a doctor. The second was the war of liberation of Bangladesh. I came back from London to fight in the war. As a guerilla fighter, I had contact with the villagers.
War is an equaliser.
You can no longer put on trousers and pretend to be different to the village people. You put aside worldy desires. You share the lives of those in the villages.