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Volume 3

Letter ID: 919

Sri Aurobindo — Roy, Dilip Kumar

July 1937 (?)

Certainly, you will have my blessings on all your undertakings and what force I can give you. As for the other matter I am rather at sea as to your idea. Certainly, I am not going to write text books for the green and youthful minds of Calcutta under-graduates – if the Vice-Chancellor expects that of me, he is doomed to disappointment. As for the proposal about Anilbaran, I have no objection to it in principle, but what on earth is he going to make out of these books – I mean in the nature of a text book? These books even boiled down will be heavy going for any undergraduate. If there is any specific and feasible proposal, I shall consider it, but –