This day that year

Chandigarh, Tuesday, October 8, 1974 THE great Krishna Menon is dead, but Menonism is not. It will live in the hearts of men and women living far and wide. His talent and brilliance were seldom questioned, though his temper and...

Lahore, Tuesday, October 7, 1924 IN a recent issue, the Pioneer did a little plain-speaking about “the rabid and unscrupulous campaign that is being carried on in many Indian journals against British officials for their inability to perform miracles and...

Lahore, Sunday, October 5, 1924 THE Unity Conference, which opened at Delhi on September 26, concluded its sittings on Thursday after a week’s deliberations. The problem that it had taken upon itself to solve was the most difficult and delicate...

Lahore, Saturday, October 4, 1924 AS was to be expected, the resolutions of the Unity Conference on the subject of music at mosques, aarti and other kindred matters followed substantially the same lines as its resolution on cow slaughter. The...

Lahore, Friday, October 3, 1924 IT is scarcely necessary to say that the resolution on cow slaughter, which was adopted by the Subject Committee of the Unity Conference after a discussion lasting over two days and numerous consultations, is essentially...

Lahore, Thursday, October 2, 1924 POLITICAL India is so deeply occupied with the question of making England fulfil her solemn pledge of conceding to India her birthright of a full responsible government that she is apt to forget that there...

Lahore, Wednesday, October 1, 1924 IN a recent issue, we published the somewhat laconic statement of the Daily Express that “Mr Ramsay MacDonald’s troubles over India are such that Lord Olivier may leave the India Office.” We were not able...

Lahore, Tuesday, September 30, 1924 THE wonderful letter which Mahatma Gandhi has addressed to the President of the Unity Conference, wonderful in its conception as well as execution, in the sentiments it breathes, the views it expresses, the circumstances under...

Lahore, Saturday, September 28, 1924 IT is too readily and too hastily assumed by some of their critics that educated and patriotic Indians are in favour of universal and indiscriminate protection. This has, of course, never been the case, and...

Lahore, Saturday, September 27, 1924 THE characteristically frank and outspoken statement which Mahatma Gandhi has issued to the Press with regard to the Unity Conference, which commenced its sittings at Delhi yesterday, ought to put the assembled leaders on their...

Lahore, Friday, September 26, 1924 WITH the passing by the Legislative Assembly of the Bill for the repeal of Part 2 of the Criminal Law Amendment Act, the nationalist majority in the people’s chamber has entered upon a line of...

Chandigarh, Wednesday, September 25, 1974 IN the reports of the Reserve Bank of India and the World Bank, hardly any silver lining is discernible. In different tones, they give sufficient hints that we are all heading for harder times. The...

Lahore, Wednesday, September 24, 1924 IT is obvious that the fast which the Mahatma has imposed upon himself has roused the great heart of India. From one end of the country to the other, there is a strong and unanimous...

Lahore, Tuesday, September 23, 1924 WE strongly and wholeheartedly associate ourselves with the appeal which Swami Shraddhanand has addressed to communal newspapers not to give sensational headings to communal news, not to comment on Hindu-Muslim quarrels and to refrain from...

Lahore, Sunday, September 21, 1924 IT is too much to expect that in a country of more than 300 million human beings, some of whom have not yet risen above the communal point of view, there will be a complete...

Lahore, Saturday, September 20, 1924 THE question of Indianisation of the Railways and Railway Services came up for consideration in the Legislative Assembly on Wednesday in connection with the official proposal for the separation of railway finance from general finance....

Lahore, Friday, September 19, 1924 IN connection with the great tragedy which was enacted in Kohat last week, and on one aspect of which we have already had something to say, there are a number of points which call for...

Lahore, Thursday, September 18, 1924 AT last we have some idea of the happenings at Kohat, though by no means an adequate idea. In our issue of yesterday, we published two statements on the incident, one supplied by our Special...

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Lahore, Friday, September 12, 1924 IT has scarcely even been our lot to come across a more ridiculous suggestion than that made by the Statesman in a recent with reference of Mr CR Das’ proposal that a pact should be...

Lahore, Thursday, September 11, 1924 THE suspension of the reforms in Bengal has brought a movement of a very peculiar nature into existence in that province. For the first time in many months, parties have joined hands, whose political aims...

Chandigarh, Tuesday, September 10, 1974 THE grant of a “full, free and absolute pardon” to Richard Nixon for “all offences against the United States” during his tenure will save the former President much mental anguish. His eleventh-hour resignation had already...