Amal Kiran's Correspondence with The Mother

22 May 1955

Mother,

There seems to be something wrong in the way I asked you about certain words or phrases in those two passages of yours about women. It can’t be that the very act of asking such questions is wrong: surely you don’t mind being told about some oversight or slip. My approach, my attitude must be at fault: otherwise your response would not be what it was. Did I strike you as unsympathetic, insensitive, “cocky”? I should like very much to correct myself. I feel bad about being the cause of or even the “excuse” for your withdrawing what you had already sanctioned for publication.

Nothing of the kind — myself I did not like very much these two sentences. They give me the impression of a rather flat expression of what I wanted to say. I remember very well that I had found the questions to which I was answering boring and it explains the dullness of the answers.¹² I was truly glad of the occasion of withdrawing them from publication.

Blessings

22 May 1955