Do you remember the time when I first contested they thought that I was a public menace? Well how could I forget that day when in the night the soldiers came and arrested me and departed me with the only things I adore in my life, which was your mother and you. I couldn’t sleep that night in the cell. Nothing came to my head except the fact that I away from the two of you, but remember this Indira even though I’m far way from you in physical state my heart will always be with you. I couldn’t sleep that night, I was so bored so that’s when I decided I would write to you to educate you in the correct manner. Do you remember my first letter when I wrote to you about how scared I am and how lonely I felt? but now, because I have started to write to you I don’t feel that scared and lonely anymore. I have found out that through my writing to you I have actually got wiser and my courage has strengthened.
Indira, after the outburst of the Second World War, remember when the British asked us for help and myself and Mohandas rejected to give them help until they gave us our independence? Remember when they took me put me behind bars again? To tell you the truth Indira, I couldn’t bare the pain from being separated from my family. You can imagine how much pain this is causing me, a man fighting for the freedom of his country and he is sacrificing most of his family life to accomplish this goal. I am in that man’s boot Indira. The British are finding some kind of excuse to put me back in prison, but remember this I will never give in to the British, even if I would have to stay in prison for ten years or more. I will never give up my daughter and I hope you don’t give up when the time comes for you to achieve goals in your life as well.
We should be patriotic. We should set the example to our people and make them realize that we need to unite and kick this foreign community and their life style and culture. Our people can not see the wrong they are doing and how much they are stealing from our country. They are robbing us, somebody must take action and talk to the public, and I think you should do that my dear, show them the light. They disgraced and mocked our religion when they applied cow and pig fat oil on the gun cartridges. They are treating me as if I am a traitor when I’m in prison. Now I have devoted my time for prayer and I hope Vishnu would answer them and make India a powerful and foreign free nation in the world. Please comfort your mother for you can understand the situation she is in, tell her to have courage for I shall soon be out of prison because I have faith, and it was faith that brought me this far.
Their language and culture maybe good, but I think Hindi should be the first language and the mother tongue of our nation. We should encourage all the children from any caste, religion or race to free education. We must unite with the Muslim community for they, like us are also fighting for the same cause. I have heard that even Ceylon is trying to fight for freedom. This could be the correct time to take action because along with Ceylon’s efforts we might see that path to success. The great king Ashoka of India, who was the bravest and intelligent warrior king in India, made the biggest change in his life. He left his weapons and started to be religious and became a holy monk. If a man of that status being a king and an intelligent general putting all the violence aside and started practicing Buddhism. This change my daughter takes a lot of will power. Afterwards he settled all his wars by speech and by practicing religion and spreading the philosophy of Buddha to his enemies, and at the end of his journey to seek Nirvana, a king challenged him to war, however because he didn’t want to settle the problem with violence and anger her wanted to settle it peacefully, instead he left the village and the new king vowed to pay anybody who would bring him his head. Once a man came across king Ashoka and wanted to kill him and take his head. Instead the great king drew a circle with his finger nail around his neck and disjointed it from his body and handed it over.
As you see my child war is not the solution to this crisis. Like I said, we should fight for freedom through speech and show her Majesty that, we Indians want to be independent and want have total control of the government and of India without foreign interference. My child, I have written for about half an hour now and it is nearly time for my launch. Please give my love to your mother and tell her that I miss her with all my life and that I wish I was there at the moment, but somebody has to do something at some point to free our nation. Finally, Indira may Vishnu bless you and your mother and keep you’ll in good health. Take care of you self, my daughter for I will always be there in your heart and you in mine. With lots of love
Yours Truly,
You’re Farther,
Papa
Jawaharlal Nehru
Sean Ranabahu
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