Lahore, Friday, August 22, 1924 IN our correspondence columns will be found a communication from a reliable source about the deplorable state of affairs in some branches of the Railway administration. The letter reveals the length to which the policy...
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Lahore, Thursday, August 21, 1924 AS an effective exposure of the ‘reformed’ regime, the highly interesting evidence given by CY Chintamani before the Reforms Enquiry Committee completes the process begun by the evidence of SM Chitnavis from the Central Provinces....
Lahore, Wednesday, August 20, 1924 IT was a fine speech which CR Das delivered as President of the Swaraj Party Conference which held its sittings in Calcutta on Saturday and Sunday. Appropriately enough, he began by repeating what he and...
Lahore, Tuesday, August 19, 1924 IT is impossible to think of a set of more retrograde or more perverse proposals than those contained in the memorandum which the central organisation of the European Association has submitted to the Reforms Enquiry...
Lahore, Sunday, August 17, 1924 GREAT importance attaches to the evidence of Lala Harkishan Lal before the Reforms Committee not only because of his recent official experience, but because of his eminent position as a public man of many years’...
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Lahore, Friday, August 15, 1924 IN spite of the ingenious defence that has been set up by the Anglo-Indian Press, we are constrained to say that the Dacca speech of Lord Lytton, which has caused a feeling of profound indignation...
Lahore, Thursday, August 14, 1924 THE keynote of the evidence given by NK Kelkar, an ex-Minister from the Central Provinces, before the Reforms Committee is that like Mr Chitnavis he is entirely opposed to the continuance of dyarchy, even if...
Chandigarh, Wednesday, August 13, 1974 THE essence of a modern democratic government is full publicity to all business that is of public interest, but several Union Ministers seem to think otherwise. Thereby, they reflect their disbelief in the precept that...
Lahore, Tuesday, August 12, 1924 THE statement which Mahatma Gandhi has made on the subject of the South Indian floods both in the course of a press interview and of a letter addressed by him to K Nataranjan is at...
Lahore, Sunday, August 10, 1924 THE examination of the very first witness who appeared before the Reforms Enquiry Committee conclusively showed the utter impossibility of confining the enquiry within the four walls of “the structure, the policy and the purposes...
Lahore, Saturday, August 9, 1924 LORD Lytton has been freely complimented in a section of the Anglo-Indian Press for expressing himself in somewhat strong terms at a Police Parade recently held at Dacca on the subject of the relations between...
Lahore, Friday, August 8, 1924 WE have said that if ever a resolution was brought forward in the Provincial Council which had everything to be said for it and nothing to be said against it from the Indian point of...
Lahore, Thursday, August 7, 1924 THE debate which took place in the Punjab Legislative Council on Monday last over the resolution of Rana Feroz-ud-Din, urging the immediate and unconditional release of Maulana Zafar Ali, was chiefly notable only as affording...
Lahore, Tuesday, August 5, 1924 WE have already had something to say about Sir Malcolm Hailey’s first public speech as Governor of this Province, the speech he made in reply to the addresses of welcome presented to him at Jullundur....
Lahore, Sunday, August 3, 1924 WHETHER for good reasons or bad, it is usual to look into the first public utterance of a Governor or Governor-General for some indication of the policy which he proposes to follow. The practice has...
Lahore, Saturday, August 2, 1924 YESTERDAY was the first day of what has come to be known in the national calendar of India as the Tilak week. We have no doubt that as during the last three years, the week...
Lahore, Friday, August 1, 1924 THIS day four years ago, Bal Gangadhar Tilak quit the scene of his earthly labours. From the point of view of the ordinary man with a limited vision, the time for his departure was singularly...
COLLISIONS between the Bench and the Bar are not unknown in any country, certainly not in ours. As a rule, these occur only in subordinate courts, at any rate, not in the highest courts. The saying that the higher one...
IT must be admitted that beyond certain general observations permeated by a true spirit of nationalism, there is nothing in the greater part of Hakim Ajmal Khan’s statement on the Delhi riots which can be said to be of immediate...
TO all patriotic and self-respecting Indians, it must be a matter of the deepest regret that it has been necessary for the Chief Commissioner of Delhi to address a letter to the editors of all local newspapers. Whether the letter...
WE have already referred to that part of Lord Olivier’s speech in the House of Lords, undoubtedly its most unsatisfactory part, in which he said that “the Viceroy and the Governors of Bengal and the Central Provinces were now considering...
To us in this country, the only important thing in the debate which took place in the House of Lords on Monday with regard to the Indian situation is the speech of the Secretary of State. That speech was unhappily...
ONE of the most urgent of all reforms in India is the reform of the prison system. Much has been said on this subject during the last few years both in the press and on the platform, and a Commission...
EVEN since the appearance of Mahatma Gandhi on the scene, the Presidentship of the Congress has been shorn of some of its old importance. The President no longer leads the Congress as he used to do in the old days....
NO saying was commoner during the Great War than that it was intended to make the world safe for democracy. It may similarly be said that the one clear purpose which the disturbances like those that took place in Delhi...
IT is an unfortunate fact, not easily to be explained, that in spite of its being the winter capital of India as well as a prominent centre of nationalist activities, no detailed account of the deplorable happenings at Delhi during...
WE have already accorded our general support to the several amendments to the criminal law of India of which notice has been given by Vithalbhai Patel. In the present article, we propose to offer a few detailed observations in regard...
NO newspaper has oftener or more consistently pleaded for a common political programme for the whole of the party of self-government in India than ourselves. It is, therefore, with peculiar interest that we have read the article which Mahatma Gandhi...
IT was a very significant statement which Mahatma Gandhi made in the course of a talk with Pandit Motilal Nehru, who met him at Ahmedabad soon after the All India Congress Committee (AICC) meeting. “It would be disastrous,” he said,...
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