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Dear Chitta,¹
It is a long time, almost two years I
think, since I have written a letter to anyone. I have been
so much retired and absorbed in my Sadhana that contact
with the outside world has till lately been reduced to
minimum. Now that I am looking outward again, I find that
circumstances lead me to write first to you — I say,
circumstances because it is a need that makes me take up the
pen after so long a disuse.
The need is in connection with the first
outward work that I am undertaking after this long inner
retirement. Barin has gone to Bengal and will se
Nirodbaran
......."Yes, you may say so, though many
believe it was because I failed in the riding test. You are taught,
aren't you, in the Bengali nursery rhyme that whoever works and studies
well gets to ride in cars and carriages? Well, I didn't get to ride a
horse! {Laughter) Anyway, I believe that by then all the
activities of the Indian Majlis were being reported to the India Office.
Whenever famous or prominent Indians visited Cambridge, we would invite
them to attend the Majlis meetings. They were rather old and moderate in
their views;
we were young hotheads and so the arguments
flew fast and sharp between us
Resource name: /The Ashram/Special Visitors/Chittaranjan Das/Biography.htm
Desh
Bandhu Sri Chittaranjan Das (187O-1925), a
landmark figure in the history of India's struggle for
freedom, was indeed an 'Apostle of Indian Nationalism'.
A political leader, lawyer, poet and journalist &
associate of Sri Aurobindo. C R Das, was born on November 5,
187O in Calcutta. He was the eldest son of Bhuban Mohan Das
and Nistarini Devi. The Das family was one of the most
distinguished and cultured in Bengal and belonged to that sect
of
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