Sarat Bose complained to Gandhi that Patel wanted that ‘not a word, not a comma should be changed’.34 Patel and his group obviously believed that there was only one solution to the impasse: Subhas had to abandon his new boat and come aboard on Gandhi’s as a part of the crew. But these signals of intransigence did not deter Subhas from trying to find some kind of middle ground with Gandhi. He embarked on this effort through letters while convalescing in a place near Dhanbad.
Subash was recovering in gomoh near dhanbad
