Champaklal Speaks

Mother’s Photo and People

1959-08-08

The Mother was given a copy of a photograph other taken recently. On seeing it, she told the photographer: “You have caught the expression.”

Later, upstairs, I told Mother that people were asking what she had said about the photograph.

Mother: “It is not their business.”

C: “But I have told them that you said it is excellent.”

Mother: “Yes, it is excellent, but they ought to know it!”

On this and on many other occasions I realised that she wanted people to be sensitive and to understand things rightly by themselves, without being told.