Sharma : After your return from the Karachi Congress and your next arrest in 1932, what were your activities ?
Chavan : I went back to school again. The group of students that we had formed was there. we used to meet and discuss matters. we carried on prabhat pheries, participated in ganesh utsav. melas and had our own Sahu Chhatrapati mela. The Gandhi-Irwin Pact came about in March (1931) and in the month of January 1932 the movement was started and I was arrested on the 26th January. I could not complete my academic year.
Sharma : How did your guardians view your political activities?
Chavan : My guardian at that time was my eldest brother, who was a government employee. He did not very much care as to what I was doing. He used to live in some other town. So there was not much of interference from him. other brother was also a school-going boy, but he was more under the influence of the non-Brahmin movement.
My main guardian was my mother. And she never felt that what I was doing was bad. Many people told her that this would bring trouble for her eldest son who was a government employee. She used to ask me : Your brother would be in trouble, have you thought of that ? I said : what have I to do with that ? He is doing his work and I am doing mine. Am I doing a wrong thing? I asked her. I told her that I was doing what Gandhiji and Tilak were saying. She used to believe me My mother was a great person, I tell you. All the cultural Traditions, all the sanskans, I can say, are from my mother. She never came in my way.
