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Dear Sir,
I tender my sincere
felicitations and kind greetings to you, Sir, and I further wish to express to you that I
was very much delighted indeed to have taken up your kind suggestion to write to that
Swamiji Gurudev through the Advocate General of Patna. I am exceedingly happy to inform
you that the replies that were received by me from the Swamiji were in consonance with the
high expectations aroused in me by your goodself. I had asked some questions and enclosed
those questions in a cover which was properly sealed in accordance with the suggestion of
the Advocate General and I sent that cover enclosed in another cover to the Advocate
General at Patna.
within a week or so I got
the cover duly returned to me by the Advocate General, Patna saying that the answers were
recorded insid4 without the cover being opened at all. I opened the over and found to my
happiness and astonishment that the answers were there and the seal on the cover was in
tact and not tampered with at all.
I had mentioned as one of
my-major questions inside the cover about the possibility of a Medical College and General
Hospital the entire scheme costing nearly a crore of rupees--coming into existence at
Karaikudi taking its proud place along with the chain of Educational Institutions here in
this campus. I was awaiting anxiously the result because the Government of Madras had
appointed a Committee with Dr. A. Lakshmanaswami Mudaliar as Chairman to decide the venue
whether it is to be in Karaikudi or in any other centre. I am very happy, Sir, to inform
you that the prognostic of the Swamiji has come true. The Committee appointed by the
Madras Government ha8 recommended Karaikudl as the suitable Venue for the opening of the
Hospital and the Medical College. I do earnestly and prayerfully hope that the Government
of Madras will accept the recommendation of the Committee which they themselves appointed
and the Government of India will help the Government of Madras and my College Trust in the
second five year plan as they have promised to do already in a general way.
One of the important
reasons I am writing this letter to you is that I am very genuinely excited over the
prospects of not merely the Medical College coming in, but more of your goodself coming
here and staying for a couple of days or three days in my College campus, i.e., Bhavnagar
Stadium - a Stadium which has all the modern facilities and beautifully situated in the
midst of the very inspiring campus. You may remember, Sir, you were kind enough to promise
me that you would stay at Karaikudi in my College for a few days next time" when you
come down South. I had the privilege of meeting you at Mysore and later Sri K. KamaraJ
Nadar, Chief Minister of Madras told me that you were kind enough to mention to him at
Madras Railway Station that Karaikudi could be considered as the venue of the Indian
National Congress, the Session that was later held at Avadi-Satyamurthinagar.
I shall be most grateful to
you, Sir, if you could kindly keep in mind genuine request of mine to your coming and
arranging to allot two or three days for your stay at Karaikudi. Rumours in the papers say
that you are likely to come in the next few months to South. I leave it to you, Sir, to
make your own choice whether this time or next time according to y our convenience. I
shall be indeed very happy and the students of this campus a very blessed lot it if we can
have your darshan in this College campus atleast for a couple of days.
With kind regards,
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