Harijan Ahmedabad — Sunday April 26 1942

9. Q. From the point of view of easy mastery over the pronunciation of the national language is not the Devnagri script the best ? The Persian script is surely defective for the purpose. [...] It asks that the scholars should carry through the whole process of working the land sowing seed tending the young plants observing and studying the growth of the plants keeping records of their observations harvesing the crops and calculating the turnover and preparing the soil for the next year. [...] Essential features of the system are practical training in the use of the simplest tools of all industries and the close connection between teaching and the economic needs and developments of the country. [...] ( I remember though that Gurudev once in London fixed a price of one pound for his autograph and used the collections for Visvabharati.) Without 'a price attached it adds perhaps to the sense of "possession of the owner of the album and often becomes a nuisance to the giver of the autograph who at all hours of the day and on all occasions is pursued by the autograph-hunters. [...] receive half-a-dozen lines each in a British-written Who's Who.and one of them it is said was the parliamentary private secretary to the parliamentary secretary to the seretary to the navy before being appointed Governor while the other had a mother who was the daughter of the daughter of the nephew of the 10th earl of somwhere.