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

province live unless the Nation lives? They all—Maharashtra, Bengal,
Madras—are great and will live long but through Her-India! So let us not
say आंध्र माताकी but भारतमाता की जय of whom आंध्र is only a limb,
and let us sing not ‘वंग आभार’ इूहह ‘हिंद आभार’! All provinces and
petty languages, instead of asking to be separated, should try to get
amalgamated and remove the barriers that yet remain and destroy the
confusion of tongues and not to hug to it. Smaller nationalities! Is not
Belgium a sufficeint warning? The greatest good that the British
Government has done without meaning it, is to, melt and mould the
disintegrating factions of our Motherland and hammer us into one people.
Now instead of trying to remove whatever stands in the way of its
consummation, we are, on the one hand, hugging to the fetters that were the
necessary price of this boon and trying to turn the very boon into a curse, on
the other.
Now I think I had written all that I felt and wanted to ask about your letter
and the books you sent. Next time you please send me the books the list of
which I subjoin. Instead of sending a parcel, you may bring them with you
if you come before September 1st. If not, send a parcel. Please do answer
this letter as soon as you have carried the necessary communication with
our friends. I am extremely glad that you could see the gentleman, you
refered to in your letter. I knew you would like each other very soon, for
birds of the same feathers gather together. Please give my affection and best
remembrances to him. I remember him every now and then. How is our
dear Professor getting on? My heart gladdens at the thought that by this
time, one more bird must have come back to that dear little nest after
sustaining a night through dreary deserts of burning sands, where no drop
cools the thirsty heart and no dew vivifies the parched flower of hope. In his
release and the release of so many of them, I feel as if my own partial
release had come. If poor dear Sakharam too would have been there today!
Though foolish and almost dishonourable to feel he should have been
living, who has done better to die in such a cause—still the heart feels.
As far as we are concerned, I again assure you not to be anxious about us
at all. All the term-prisoners of our case had been sent back to India, and we
lifers (life-transportees) only remain. As long as the war is going on, I, on
principle, have made up my mind not to ask for anything so as to embarrass
the authorities here; and at present both of us are keeping good health and