Dear Shri Govind Malode,

Calcutta 15th August, 1974 If you sincerely aspire to be a succcessful social worker....... 15-07-1974 Dear Shri Govind Malode, I could, recently, snatch some time from my present tour for my short trip to Shillong. I was with Shri A. Balakrishnan for a day and a half on 12th and 13th of this month. My only purpose in visiting Shillong was to get a first hand report from Shri A. Balakrishnan about all of you working in Arunachal Pradesh and Nagaland. On the eve of my departure from Shillong, I happened to receive your recent letter addressed to Shri A. Balakrishnan. I went through that letter very closely. I earnestly want you to recall all that had been told to our life-workers at Kanyakumari and Shillong regarding the utmost care that they have to take while spending the public money. Though there seems to be some healthy change in you in other aspects, your spending habits appear to remain totally unchanged. This would stand in the way of your development. Are you sending your monthly accounts to Kanyakumari? I am writing to Kanyakumari to redirect those accounts to me for my perusal. I shall write to you again after studying the nature of your spendings. If you sincerely aspire to be a successful social worker, you should, as a first step, bring down your monthly recurring expenditure to Rs. 200/- maximum, under any circumstance. I shall soon expect a communication from you conveying to me that you have succeeded in slashing down your monthly expenditure to the indicated level. While at Nagpur, I happened to meet your father. While he expressed his total satisfaction on the change he noticed in you at Dombivli, he made anxious enquiries about your future. I requested him to wait and watch. I hope that you are now slowly settling down at your place of work and will soon be able to start Yoga classes. When you formally start such a center for imparting training in Yoga, you should name it as 'Vivekananda Yoga Kendra'. Another important thing that I wish to convey to you newly is that though accounts are to be sent to Kanyakumari, they are to be necessarily routed through Shillong. As Shri A. Balakrishnan has been asked to look to the needs of our life-workers in Arunachal and Nagaland, and as, for that purpose, he must have a prior look at the accounts submitted by them to Kanyakumari, the above mentioned arrangement is considered very much necessary. You are, therefore, requested to send your monthly accounts to Shri A. Balakrishnan who will forward those papers to Kanyakumari after their perusal by him. I am, at present, on my state to state tour to select suitable trainees for the next batch from among applicants aspiring to join the Vivekananda Kendra as life-workers. Please convey my Sasneha Namaskars to Shri Malkhan Singh Tyagi, Shri K.V. Rajagopalachari and others. Note: The most important thing you are to give top priority to is to master the language of the tribal community residing in that area. With regards, Brotherly yours,