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A common feature among the many Japanese visitors was that they carried from home almost everything that they might need, even note papers for writing letters home. Sarala Devi decided to use the indigenously made yellow paper manufactured from cotton pulp for the cover of the Bharati magazine. Unfortunately, she cannot use this paper for the inside pages. Jogesh Chaudhury, a brother of Asutosh Chaudhury, was a dedicated swadeshi as well as a man of refined tastes. Soon thereafter an exhibition of Indian-made goods was organized in Bombay coinciding with the annual session of the Indian National Congress to which Sarala sent consignments of Bengal-made products from the shop Luxmir Bhandar. Her clothes, made entirely from Indian materials that she regularly wore even on special occasions like weddings or the Maghotsav festival, started getting noticed. Sarala thoughts were already occupied with the dreams of attaining freedom from foreign domination, and her eyes were opened to the myriad-headed viper.