One late evening, I stayed
for a Sangha Baithak at Doctorjee's home, which ended at about 11:00 PM.
Once, a late evening Sangha
Baithak at Doctorjee's home ended at 11:30 PM, and I decided to spend the night
there. After taking care of all sleeping arrangements, Doctorjee said
"good night" to me and went to his room. It had been a long
exhausting day for all of us and I fell asleep very quickly.
However, I can't sleep well
in a new place, and I woke up at about 3:00 AM. To my amazement Doctorjee's
table lamp was on, and he was busily writing something. It was obvious that he
had not gone to bed at all.
Normally, Doctorjee
preferred to have all his letters including Sangha - related correspondence,
written by others. He would just give them an idea about what was to be
written, and then he would review and sign the written material. Even, the
daily newspapers were read to him by others and he would give only an occasional
comment. So, it was rare and amazing to see him writing something. Knowing his
habits, my curiously took over me, and I walked over to his room, knocked on
the open door and said: "What is this, Doctorjee - what book are you
writing at such an ungodly hour?"
Doctorjee immediately
closed up the papers he was writing on, locked them into a box, turned a
smiling face to me and said: "Nothing. Please don't say anything to anyone
about what you just saw, ok?" He then lay down on his bed in the room and asked
me to go back to my room to sleep.
It was heavily rumored that
Doctorjee was secretly in touch with his associates from his earlier days as a
Revolutionary Freedom Fighter; they were in Bharat as well as abroad. It was an
open secret, even though he had left his Revolutionary life. Doctorjee never
forsook his Revolutionary associates and he helped them to the best of his abilities, of course, there
was no proof of anything.
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