[Letter to Mr Minoo Masani]

Summary

A brief handwritten note dated 25 February 1975, sent from Bangalore to Minoo Masani in Bombay on an inland letter card. The writer acknowledges receipt (at 4 P.M. that day) of Masani’s letter Ref. 49 of 18-2-75, in which Masani had announced that he would be in Bangalore on the 22nd and 23rd. Because Masani did not name the flight on which he would arrive, the writer undertakes to telephone the Ashoka Hotel on the morning of the 22nd to locate him. Once contact is made and Masani’s convenience is confirmed by phone, the writer will fix up a chat at ‘K.H.’s place’. The note closes ‘With kind regards, Yours sincerely,’ over an indistinct signature. The second image is the outside of the inland letter card: it is addressed to ‘Mr. M. R. Masani, C/o PPS, 148 M.G. Road, Bombay-1 (PIN 400001)’, bears a 20-paise India postage stamp and a February 1975 Bangalore postmark, and gives the sender’s return address only as ‘Sreenivasan, Bangalore’. The letter is purely a logistical scheduling communication; it contains no political, economic, or programmatic content.

Key points

• Handwritten inland letter card dated 25 February 1975, sent from Bangalore to Minoo Masani at 148 M.G. Road, Bombay-1.
• Written in reply to Masani’s letter Ref. 49 of 18-2-75, which had announced Masani’s arrival in Bangalore on the 22nd and 23rd.
• The correspondent notes that Masani has not specified his flight and proposes to ring the Ashoka Hotel on the morning of the 22nd to locate him.
• A meeting is to be arranged at ‘K.H.’s place’ after the writer confirms Masani’s convenience over the telephone.
• The note carries no substantive political or economic argument; it is a scheduling and logistics communication only.
• The envelope side of the inland card names the addressee as ‘Mr. M. R. Masani’ and gives the return address as ‘Sreenivasan, Bangalore’.