is his reply. Note his last line. He is a lovely prose writer in Bengali – a stylist par excellence – a friend of Tagore’s. Note also his remarks with love and emotion on you. Did you know him well of yore? Political?Sri Aurobindo
Letters of Sri Aurobindo
Volume 3
Letter ID: 831
Sri Aurobindo — Roy, Dilip Kumar
September 28, 1936
You see Charu Dutt1. LC.S. wrote a review of Jawaharla’s Autobiography in the Viswabharati Review last month. I used to be very friendly with his extremely sweet daughter – died of childbirth, poor girl – so I sent him your remarks on Jawaharlal telling him “strictly private”. He has a great reverence for you – he wrote in Parichay. Here is his reply. Note his last line. He is a lovely prose writer in Bengali – a stylist par excellence – a friend of Tagore’s. Note also his remarks with love and emotion on you. Did you know him well of yore? Political?
Charu Dutt? Yes, saw very little of him, for physically our way lay far apart, but that little was very intimate, one of the best of men whom I used to appreciate most and felt as if they had been my friends and comrades and fellow-warriors in the battle of the ages and would be so for ages more. But curiously enough my physical contact with men of his type – there were two or three others – was always brief. Because I had something else to do this time, I suppose.
1 Charu Chandra Dutt (16.6.1876 – 22.1.1952) served as judge at several places in Western India. He was a revolutionary and met Sri Aurobindo in 1904 in Baroda and was then in contact with him until 1910.
In 1940, Charu Dutt met again Sri Aurobindo in Pondicherry and then he and his wife, Lilabati, settled in the Ashram where they spent the last years of their life.