(Mother sees some teachers from the school. Towards the end of the meeting, Pranab enters Mother's room in his customary manner, heads straight for Mother, and launches into a violent diatribe against some French television reporters - whom Mother had received the day before - because they filmed Sri Aurobindo's tomb "in spite of his orders." Mother tries to calm him down.)
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.
(Pranab explodes:) If I meet them again, I'll smash their cameras.
I don't want any violence or nasty scenes here.
(Pranab retreats to the other end of the room, muttering angrily)
(Mother sits with her head in her hands) I have worked all my life so people would become a little conscious. But this violence....
(Mother turns to one of the teachers with a kind of distress in her voice)
People say that I am old, that I can't speak, that I am senile, but the consciousness has never been so clear.... One minute of silence and....
(the teachers leave the room silently,
Mother remains alone with her bodyguard and the attendant)
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