(Mother sees some teachers from the school. Towards the end<\/i>
of the meeting, Pranab enters Mother’s room in his customary<\/i>
manner, heads straight for Mother, and launches into a violent<\/i>
diatribe against some French television reporters – whom<\/i>
Mother had received the day before – because they filmed<\/i>
Sri Aurobindo’s
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Mother tries to calm him down.)<\/i>
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When they [the reporters] cannot get something from one person, they go to somebody else – and it works. In any event, I won’t see them anymore.
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(Pranab explodes:) If I meet them again, I’ll smash their<\/i>
cameras.<\/i>
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I don’t want any violence or nasty scenes here.
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(Pranab retreats to the other end of the room, muttering angrily)<\/i>
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(Mother sits with her head in her hands)<\/i> I have worked all my life so people would become a little conscious. But this violence….
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