Amrita's Correspondence with The Mother

29 April 1933

Mother,

Some of our paid servants have come together to form a group of either five or ten members among themselves. The group is formed for a certain number of months during which each member contributes a certain amount of money each month. The money thus collected is then distributed equally among the members of the group. The present group, made up of ten, has Kesavalou as one of its members, but now he refuses to give his monthly quota to the group. The group is alarmed and its members approach you for a solution.

I refuse to have anything to do with these affairs.

The whole thing is illegal and punishable. But this kind of thing is prevalent among the servant class and milkmen of Pondicherry. This is by the way. But what do you want me to tell them?

That I absolutely refuse to hear a single word about such things.

29 April 1933