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than those of many others, but he was the protector of the Indian community in general, and of the Bengalees in particular. His aid was often sought and readily given.

One of the most frequent of these visitors was perhaps Mr. Kedarnath Das-Gupta, a native of the district of Chittagong in Bengal, but now settled in London, organizing plays and amuse- ments; and familiarizing the British public with the characteristic incidents in the life of ancient India. In the colossal life of Imperial London, his individuality and power of organization are lost. He is a walking chart of London. Tell him the street and the number of the house you want to go to, and he will take you there, perhaps more quickly and cheaply than even the omniscient London cab- driver. Sleepless in his activities and in his desire to serve others, Kedarnath Das-Gupta is a familiar figure to the Bengalees in London, and is loved and esteemed by all who know him. He was my guide, philosopher and friend, amid the bewildering facilities of communication that London presents to the newcomer. And you are a newcomer, although you may have been in London half a dozen times in your life, so rapid are the transformations in its topography, thanks to the swift-moving machinery of its system of local government.

These lines were written when Mr. Bhupendra Nath Basu was still in our midst. He died on September 16, 1924, mourned by all who knew him, leaving a gap in the ranks of our public life that it would be difficult to fill. For strength of conviction, for clearness of vision, for tact and judgment in handling affairs, he stood pre- eminent among the public men of his generation. He took to poli- tics early in life, and enrolled himself as a volunteer in the first Calcutta Congress of 1886. A volunteer is not a delegate, though under recent Swarajist tactics he is sometimes elevated to that dig- nity as at Seraigunge, to swell the number of Swarajist votes. But the young volunteer, the newest recruit in the service of the Con- gress, had the Field-Marshall's baton concealed in his knapsack, and in 1914 became the President of the Indian National Congress. Once thrown into the whirlpool of political life, he was drawn into its deepest currents, and was closely identified, as a leading perso- nality, with our all great public movements. He was one of the central figures in the anti-Partition and the Swadeshi movements of 1905. In 1906, when I was arrested at Barisal, he was placed in charge of the Conference proceedings. In 1909, when I was in England, he presided over the boycott celebration of August 7 of