Motilal finally closed down the Independent in 1921, unable to sustain its continuing losses. To o proud to draw a salary for his political work, Motilal decided to resume his legal practice so that his family would be provided for. Jawaharlal, enthralled by Gandhian self-denial, cared little about such matters, provoking his father to declare bluntly: ‘You cannot have it both ways: insist on my having no money and yet expect me to pay you money.’
