 It put him in a terrible quandary and pitiable plight of having no money even for his daily food.Pillai then established close contacts with the few Indians in Germany including Virendranath Chattopadhyaya, immediate younger brother of Sarojini Naidu, Bhupendranath Datta, younger brother of Narendranath DuttaSwami Vivekananda, M. Prabhakar, Raja Mahendra Pratap, who became the President of the exile Government of India in Afghanistan during the First World War of 1914–18 and the renowned expatriate Chempakaraman Pillai, from Thiruvananthapuram.Chempakaraman Pillai wrote "I am extremely pleased of your broadminded patriotic sentiments.