In the last years, two Bengalis became very close to Gandhi. They were Sudhir Ghosh, the anthropologist, and Nirmal Kumar Bose. Sudhir Ghosh wrote Gandhi's Emissary, and, in My Days with Gandhi, Nirmal Bose described in detail Gandhi's mental anguish during those dire weeks at Noakhali. Ghosh became a part of the informal channel of communication between the Cabinet Mission and Gandhi at a time when crucial talks were on about the transfer of power. Nirmal Kumar Bose was his secretary in the mid-1940s and accompanied Gandhi to Noakhali, as his "companion and interpreter". On October 19, after a report from Bidhan Chandra Roy on the situation, Gandhi decided to go to Noakhali. In early November, he started his tour, which took seven weeks of walking barefoot through 47 villages. His base was a half-burnt dhobi's house in the village of Chandipur, where he stayed till January 1, 1947. Ghosh who needed to meet him to discuss some letters that the leader had wanted to write to Lord Pethick-Lawrence and Sir Stafford Cripps, both of the Cabinet Mission, did not find it easy "to discover the washerman's house in the deep darkness of the Noakhali village in the midst of a forest of 'supari' trees; but a village boy guided him]ultimately to the right place". Although on arrival, Ghosh told Gandhi that he was also carrying letters from Nehru and Patel for him, he was first asked whether he had brought his mosquito net with him. "I had to admit that I had not. So he went for me. 'You were born in Bengal; don't you know that it is impossible to sleep in these Noakhali villages without a mosquito net?'" Soon, Manu Gandhi helped out and the conversation turned to the letters. After he had heard them read out by Ghosh, he said, "So they want me to go back to Delhi, do they?' He pondered the letters and the request for a while, but decided, "No, my place is here, I will stay here".
Here is a #RareVideo of #GandhiInNoahkhali Ekla Cholo Re was one of his favorite songs composed by Tagore
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