भारतीय इतिहास के ६ स्वर्णिम पृष्ठ (वीर सावरकर - विदेशी आक्रान्ताओं पर विजय गाथा)

Letters From Andamans
D/15-12-12
Dearest brother
Thus it is after 18 months I have a chance to touch pen and ink again.
At this rate one can quickly unlearn the art of writing altogether! You
must have been very anxious about this delay but as you had received a
letter from our dearest Baba in July, I thought it would be more assuring
to you to hear from us a few months later than at about the same time.
How glad I was to learn that you have joined the medical course and are
doing well. How do you like that course? To me it is a noble course. I
should like you to take not only Medicine but the Science of Physiology
itself as your special province. Please do follow it up not only as a
profession but as a pursuit. It opens out inexhaustible field for charity
and benevolence. It is respected all over the world, in the Hotenttots as
well as in the Aryans. The study of body—a temple wherein the soul
lives—is next to the study of the
soul itself.
Your choice of books last year was simply capital. Moropant, Bharat,
Vivekanand—all standard books. Out of the books asked for by me only
ज्ञेयमीमांसा and अज्ञेयमीमांसा did not come why? I have sent a list
for this year, but do not spend more than 10 rupees on my books. If the
list comes to more than that please go on omitting from the bottom. You
need not buy all books new. You can send some second hand ones if you
like.
And how do you like Bengal? By this time after the Puja holidays you
are back to Calcutta and must have grown quite into a Bengali Babu—is
not it? Forgotten Marathi language? Please take care you do not lose
something else. For, I am afraid I might hear at any time that some one
in those clever Bengalis has stolen your heart away! Though I for one
should like so much to have found a dear little Bengali sister-in-law. I
am as strongly in favour of these inter-provincial marriages among the
Hindus as I am deadly opposed to the practice of marrying the European
girls at this stage of our national life.
And now my dear Bal, something about me here. My health is all
right. Ever since I came to this jail, I never had a serious illness and
have managed to keep my weight just what it was when I came here. I