Prabhupāda: So he did not know. He said that "When I was going to be ambassador, Dr. Radhakrishnan, he told me that, "You first of all write a speech and practice it and deliver it very nicely. Then they will applaud." This is Dr. Radhakrishnan. They want simply applause. That's all. Because they know, "If the public applauds, then I keep my position. I am... Whatever nonsense I speak or whatever nonsense I... it doesn't matter."
Gopāla Kṛṣṇa: Public support.
Prabhupāda: Bas. That is their only business.
Hari-śauri: Some of them, they don't even write their own speeches. They have a professional script writer.
Prabhupāda: Yes. Professional writer and some speaker.
Dr. Patel: All of them. (indistinct)
Gopāla Kṛṣṇa: Even the President of the United States has a speech writer.
Prabhupāda: ...learned scholar, English licensed. We know that Madanmohan Malhotra. In those days Surendranath Bannerji was a great orator. You have heard his name? Surendranath Bannerji. He is the practically father of Indian nationalism. So he was I.C.S., and in those days English scholar, His father was big doctor. Dr. Dugdhachandra Bannerji. So his speech, this Madanmohan Malhotra used to rote, cram, and before a mirror he would speak like this. "Oh..." In this way he became a politician. He was smārta-brāhmaṇa and he became a politician. Simply by imitating Surendranath Bannerji's speech.
Dr. Patel: Even those who are with Baroda Maharaj and all Maharaj's speeches were written by (indistinct) so one can (indistinct) These are your ideas Maharaj, "Well, everyone knows that I am writing it. It doesn't matter. I won't correct it." All the speeches given by Maharaj of Baroda was written by (indistinct). All, all, practically all. Here's a reference there. And he was a great scholar after all.
Prabhupāda: Oh yes. He was English born. His father was medical man. Dr. Madanmohan Bannerji.
Dr. Patel: They say he did not know even Bengali properly.
Prabhupāda: Yes. How he can? He was born in England. Educated in England. He was English-born.
Dr. Patel: Then he became a master in Sanskrit. That is a great, I mean intelligent...
Prabhupāda: That may be. He was a scholar. They were big scholars. He was professor in Baroda University.
Dr. Patel: Professor of French and Philosophy.
Prabhupāda: There is one hall, Aurobindo Hall, in Baroda.
