ONE of the most important privileges of the legislature in a country under the parliamentary form of government is the right to elect its own president. This privilege was withheld from several legislatures in India, Central and provincial, for the...
IF the political organisations that hold their annual sittings during the last week of December did not succeed at the sessions which have just come to a close in devising a plan by which the unity of the Congress can...
WHETHER the public can be made book-minded by the sale of books through post offices and petrol pumps, as suggested by Information and Broadcasting Minister Inder Kumar Gujral, is doubtful. The proposition is as unreal as the question whether sophistication...
THAT we have not been able to mend fences with China since the conflict in 1962 is one of the negative aspects of our otherwise fairly successful foreign policy. But it is only fair to concede that this has not...
IT is inevitable that the agenda for this year’s Congress session at Belgaum should be a particularly heavy and comprehensive one. The crisis through which the Congress and the country have been passing is one of the extraordinary gravity as...
HAVING examined at some length the findings of the Government of India both on the circumstances leading to and attending the Kohat riots and the manner in which they were officially handled, it remains for us now to notice briefly...
IN assessing the value of the findings arrived at by the Government of India in regard to the Kohat tragedy, its origin, the circumstances attending it, and the manner in which it was handled, the first thing to be borne...
Lahore, Wednesday, December 10, 1924 IF the passing away of any man, who had died full of years and of honours, can be rightly mourned by his countrymen, that of Dr Subramaniya Iyer is so mourned by the whole of...
IT was a characteristically simple and lucid speech with which Mahatma Gandhi opened the proceedings of the eleventh session of the Punjab Provincial Conference in the Bradlaugh Hall on Sunday morning. The keynote of the speech, as of the two...
Lahore, Sunday, December 7, 1924 AT the time of writing, we do not have before us the official communication concerning the decision of His Majesty’s Government on the Lee report, which was to be issued on Friday evening. But judging...
Lahore, Saturday, December 6, 1924 THE Punjab Provincial Conference meets today under circumstances at once the gravest and the most auspicious in its history. Except for a brief period in 1918 and 1919, the relations between the two principal communities...
Lahore, Friday, December 5, 1924 OPINION may and does differ as to whether it was at all a dignified thing for Sir Malcolm Hailey, in his joint reply to the addresses presented to him at Gujranwala, to refer to the...
Lahore, Thursday, December 4, 1924 TO us in Punjab, the address delivered by Sir JC Bose at the Patna University convocation, salient extracts from which will be seen elsewhere in this issue, is of peculiar importance, not only on account...
Lahore, Wednesday, December 3, 1924 THERE is one consistent game which the bureaucracy has been playing ever since it became clear that the Swarajya party had the support of the majority of politically minded Indians. It has lost no opportunity...
Lahore, Tuesday, December 2, 1924 AT last, the Governor of Bengal has seen fit to give a direct and categorical reply to Mr CR Das. The occasion was not ill-chosen. St Andrew’s Dinner in Calcutta cannot, of course, be compared...
Punjab Provincial Conference Lahore, Sunday, November 30, 1924 IT is now definitely settled that Pandit Motilal Nehru will preside over the ensuing session of the Punjab Provincial Conference at Lahore. Usually, though not invariably, a provincial conference is presided over...