Naturally, as a writer, his thoughts turn most often to literature, and there is scarcely one of the well-known American authors whose works lie has not read. Me finds great delight in these frankness because, as he says, so many of them are based on the actualities of life. Me was curious to know whether Americans cared for oriental poetry such as produced by Iimar Khayyam, a favorite with him. When told that not only was the Persian poet widely read in the United States, but that many people knew much of his verse by heart, he was greatly pleased.

When the Sardar was asked to express for publication, his views on Indian literature and its future, he was requested to do so in the form of a written statement. This he consented to, and gave the correspondent an article which not only presents the Sardar's beliefs, but shows something of the new style of writing developed in the cast. Mere is what the Sardar wrote.

"You have asked me a difficult question. The growth of literature is the growth of a nation; its painted story, as in relief by high and low lights of imagination. After long ages, India is awakening from a heavy slumber, seeking freedom from vapory dreams. It is not from the east this time, but from the west, that the light has come and touched the eyelids of the sleeper. It has awakened once more national emotions and a passion for high matters of human progress.

With the awakening has come the dawn of a new literature." 