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In the afternoon Mr. T.K. Doraiswami Iyer told Bhagavan
of Prof. Swaminathan and others in Madras suggesting that on the Jubilee Day we might have here some music performance and speeches in different languages from eminent persons. Bhagavan did not seem to be much in favour of it. He said, "What is this, sending for such people from such long distance? After all, each of them can speak only a few minutes as there are to be so many. And what expense!" Then I told Bhagavan, "This is all for our benefit. These people who will be coming here will be coming not simply to lecture. They will be coming primarily for Bhagavan's darshan ^[?] and we are going to ask them to speak too. That is all."