Pin-drop silence......
Veer Savarkar replied " Friends, I have spent 14 years of rigorous imprisonment in the infamous Andaman Jail where all freedom fighters were kept.
I have learned Bengali from the freedom fighters coming from Bengal , Hindi from those coming from Uttar Pradesh, even Gujarati and Punjabi.
Unfortunately there was none from Karnataka from whom I could have learned Kannada."
...and there was pin drop silence. more