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

and there was very little personal and selfish about him. All along his life,
he served Her and for the good of Her, as he saw it. How anxious I was to
see him, before death parted us; and to compare notes as he had said to me
in London, when we saw each other for the last time. We could not agree on
certain points and he said ‘well Mr. Savarkar, come! We will see each other
after some six years and then would compare notes’! Maharashtra must
send some one—worthier than he—to his place in Councils. If every Indian
could do at least as much as he did!
Next time you send books, please send the novels जन्मभूमि and गौतम,
which brother is very eager to read. I was very much afraid that owing to
the invasion of France, you would be unable to hear from Madame Cama-
who had been ever since my coming here a second mother to you and who
had so nobly and so faithfully stood by us in the darkest hour of our life.
But I was very glad to be assured that she, even in the midst of this world-
hubbub, remembered you and had regularly been sending letters to you. At
the touch of one such faithful, noble, unshaken loving hand, one’s heart
recovers its belief in Humanity—belief rudely shaken by the disappearance
of the closest and by the treachery of the truest and by the indifference of
the dearest. It is a pity I can not write to the dear lady and tell her how I
esteem her noble life and her solicitude for the needy and the distressed and
love and long to see her once more: but as it is, please give to her all my
esteem and respects, before you give them to any of our relatives: for what
wonder they do something for us? Wonder is how she does and does so
much.
While I am reading the books you sent, I see that in the Telugu provinces,
the new life that is struggling to find expression all over India, has been
sweeping over our bretheren there. The Andhra-Sabha आंध्रसभा is a great
and grand movement but the question of getting that province separated
from the Tamil one is not ennobling. But what pained me most and what
was but a natural corollary from the desire of petty provincialisms was that
the national shouts were आंध्र माता की जय! In this little thing and straw,
we see the direction of an ominus wind to come. This is one of the
unhealthy reactions of the grand Swadeshi movement and must be corrected
before it is too late. The Swadeshi connected in Bengal with the little
partition question brought in this reaction. Every province wants to be
separated, and shouts and invokes long life to itself! But how can the