Champaklal Speaks

Keshav Sastri and his Hindi Book

1944-11-01

Someone had complained that there was something vulgar in the Hindi book written by Keshav Sastri. P brought the book and was reading on and on to Sri Aurobindo.

I did not see the point and asked P: “That is all right, but where is the vulgar thing about which people are talking?” But he would not stop and went on reading aloud.

Then Sri Aurobindo himself asked: “But where is the vulgar thing to which they object?”

P could not reply and mumbled: “Indra Sen said that I must first go through the book before I brought it to you.”

Sri Aurobindo: “Indra Sen is rational-minded.”