Amrita's Correspondence with The Mother

24 December 1932

Mother,

It seems from what Jayaraj told me this morning that he is unable to easily digest the Ashram bread. It is the same old story! He doesn’t want to eat bread in the morning. He begs You to let him have one more banana in addition to the phoscao. The bread does not agree with him.

I firmly believe that he is unfit to receive the Asram food. It would be better if he could make some other arrangement from the first of next month.

He also does not like the cooked vegetables served in the evening. But he would like to have some cakes, if he could.

Strictly speaking, he could have one extra banana in the morning, but cakes in the evening is really a bit too much! If he were to have a meal elsewhere with the five rupees I take from him, what could he get!

24 December 1932