sympathise and moaned out “Very bad! very bad! shot the wrong man!”)Sri Aurobindo
Letters of Sri Aurobindo
Volume 1. 1936
Letter ID: 1602
Sri Aurobindo — Nirodbaran Talukdar
April 15, 1936
What, Sir? Mistake? Where is my medical report book? I suppose and conclude from the unfinished nature of the writing1 that you wanted to detain this book and send back the other one. Right?
Kept the wrong book. (Reminds me of the Sultan of Johore who when the Englishmen on board his ship were inveighing in fury against the murder of Sir Curzon Wylie by an Indian, wanted to sympathise and moaned out “Very bad! very bad! shot the wrong man!”)
1 A confidential letter on Sri Aurobindo’s role in politics.