FIRST PATRIOT: We must not rest satisfied with our own contributions. The expenses are large and the whole country must meet them along with us.
SECOND PATRIOT: That is my feeling, too. We most work our hardest to collect funds from door to door.
FIRST PATRIOT: There is no other way of contacting the people face to face.
SECOND PATRIOT: We have to plan an organised effort.
(Enter the two patriots and greet Sarojini.)
PATRIOTS: We have brought in our humble mite. (Each handing to Sarojini a hundred-rupee note.) We are planning a door-to-door collection.
SAROJINI: That’s all to the good. So far I have received less than half the sum required. Sixty thousand, that’s the estimate of legal experts. The amount so far received is twenty-three thousand.
(Enter a Punjabi postman.)
POSTMAN (handing a ten-rupee note to Sarojini): Mataji, please accept this poor man’s offer. Aurobindo Babu is our god. We pray for his victory.
(Enter a bearded Muslim cabman.)
CABMAN: Baji [elder sister], Babuji has used my cab many, many times. I have received higher and higher Bakshis every time. I have wept and prayed to Allah for his release. Allah, Allah, help him out of the trouble! Kindly take this petty sum for his defence.
(Handing a five-rupee note to Sarojini, with a salaam he goes out. Enter a street coolie of Oriyan origin. Tears rolling down from his perspiring face.)
COOLIE (placing a half-rupee coin on Sarojini’s table, with folded hands): This wretched coolie has nothing more to give. Jagannath Prabho, save our country’s jewel.From:Chinmoy Kumar Ghose,The Descent of the Blue, Sri Chinmoy Lighthouse, 1972
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