Madhusudan_Das

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2,50,000 by the Subordinate Judge of Cuttack in Execution case No.
72 of 1926, and it was subsequently sold fir the 65,000. Thus a loss
of Rs. 1,85,000 was incurred and it compelled him to apply for
insolvency. If the Utkal Tannery could be sold for the price fixed by
the Subordinate Judge, he would have been able to clear off all his
debts.
I came into more intimate contact with him when I became the
receiver of his estate. He was a loving soul with rather a rough
exterior - a man absolutely free from dogmas but all the same a pious
Christian. He was not the least perturbed by his insolvency, which
he took as an act of God.
He died on the 4th of February, 1934, and was safe with gentle
Jesus.
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MR. MADHUSUDAN DAS
AS I SAW HIM
MR. PARAMANANDA DUTTA
Several blind men were asked to describe an elephant. One
touched its leg and said that an elephant was like a palm tree . The
second, who touched its tusk, said it was like a pike, the third, who
touched its ear, said that an elephant was like winnow and another,
who felt its tail only, said that an elephant was like a tuft of hair.
They were right and yet they were wrong.
I have been asked to give my reminiscences of the late Mr.
Madhusudan Das of hallowed memory and I need hardly say that my
account will be like that of a blind man describing an elephant. In
my younger days I saw him on numerous occasion closeted with my
grandfather, the late Babu Moti Lai Ghosh, Editor of the Amrita Bazar
Patrika. But at that time I had other interests than politics and
journalism and hence took but little interest in the conversations that
took place between them. It was in the days of the Swadeshi agitation
in India that followed in the wake of the partition of Bengal.