{"id":811,"date":"2013-07-13T01:30:34","date_gmt":"2013-07-13T01:30:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/?p=811"},"modified":"2013-07-13T01:30:34","modified_gmt":"2013-07-13T01:30:34","slug":"21-not-to-the-andamans-vol-27-supplement-volume-27","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/01-works-of-sri-aurobindo\/01-sabcl\/27-supplement-volume-27\/21-not-to-the-andamans-vol-27-supplement-volume-27","title":{"rendered":"-21_Not to The Andamans.htm"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
\n

\n
\nNot
\nto the Andamans!<\/b><\/font><\/span><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\n
\n                          <\/span><\/font> 
\n<\/font><\/span>I<\/b><\/font>T IS evidently with a sigh of relief that the Indian Mirror <\/i>learns
\nthe news that Lala Lajpatrai is to be sent not to the Andamans but to Mandalay.
\nIt says: – "Soon after his arrest, it was reported widely that Lala
\nLajpatrai was going to be taken to the Andamans. But instead of being sent to
\nthat penal settlement, he has been conveyed as a State prisoner to Mandalay, in
\nUpper Burma where there is a large fort. Mandalay is certainly a far better
\nplace than the Andamans." To those like us outside the esoteric circle, –
\nand they by no means form a microscopic minority, – the
\ndistinction between the two places, on the present occasion, seems immaterial.
\nOf course it needs no ghost to tell us that Mandalay is not the Andamans. But
\nare not both places equally suited to the requirements of the Government? It was
\nnot the intention of the Government to remove Lajpatrai to a particular place
\nwith a view to subject him to a particular kind of climate. In Mandalay in Upper
\nBurma "where there is a large fort", the Punjab leader will not be
\nallowed to do as he likes. The object of the Government in deporting him was to
\nremove him from the scene of his labours and thus attempt to put a stop to his
\ncareer of usefulness, – call it political activity if you like. The first object
\nthe Government has succeeded in accomplishing by removing him to Mandalay. And
\nit would have been equally accomplished by removing him to the Andamans. But the
\nsecond object cannot be accomplished by such a removal. If
\nthe people are ready to carryon his work, –
\nwhich since his deportation
\nit has become their sacred duty to do, – the object of the Government will be
\nfrustrated. The work of an individual often becomes the work of a people, and
\nsuch work reaches its glorious culmination only when it is taken up by the
\npeople at large from whom come the energy and the character of a nation. If the
\npeople are prepared to take up his work, then his deportation, which has given
\nthem an impetus, will prove but a blessing in disguise. <\/p>\n

<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

<\/span>
\n<\/span>Bande
\nMalaram, <\/span><\/i>May
\n16, 1907
\n<\/span><\/p>\n


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