THE recent debate on the enhancement of water rates in the Punjab Legislative Council is chiefly interesting as it reveals the mentality of a large majority of the rural members of our legislature. The whole of the government’s case for...
THE recent debate on the enhancement of water rates in the Punjab Legislative Council is chiefly interesting as it reveals the mentality of a large majority of the rural members of our legislature. The whole of the government’s case for...
THE Guru-Ka-Bagh incidents form a unique chapter in the history of the Akali struggle in Punjab, exhibiting the spirit of self-sacrifice and unflinching determination of the Akalis on the one hand and the excesses of an irresponsible bureaucracy on the...
WE are now in a position to form some idea of the net outcome of the deliberations that have just taken place at Bombay. There were three issues of outstanding importance before those assembled. The first, which concerned only the...
Lahore, Tuesday, November 25, 1924 IT is with the sincerest pleasure that we learn from an Associated Press telegram that the prospects of Liberal reunion with the Congress were brighter on Saturday than ever before. “Friday’s discussions in the committee...
Lahore, Sunday, November 23, 1924 AT the time of writing, we do not know what took place at Friday’s meeting of the All-Party Conference. Judging, however, from the attitude of several parties, as disclosed in the statements recently made by...
Lahore, Saturday, November 22, 1924 It is impossible to think of two men who differ more widely or more fundamentally from each other in their temperament, training, experience of public life and their whole outlook upon public questions than do...
Lahore, Friday, November 21, 1924 Who says that the proceedings of our Legislative Councils are not enlivened by occasional flashes of humour, even though the humour may be of the unconscious variety? In our own council, at any rate, such...
Lahore, Thursday, November 20, 1924 WHILE we are pleased that Mr CY Chintamani, Secretary to the National Liberal Federation, has requested members of the council of the federation to attend the conference of all parties which Maulana Mahomed Ali has...
Lahore, Wednesday, November 19, 1924 We are constrained to say that the leaderette in the latest issue of Young India, titled “Is it compulsion?”, which we reproduced in these columns yesterday, is not distinguished by that clear thinking which is...
Lahore, Tuesday, November 18, 1924 EXCEPT on one point, the reply given by Mahatma Gandhi to the critics of the Calcutta agreement in an article in Young India is both satisfactory and convincing. He frankly admits that he made a...
Lahore, Sunday, November 16, 1924 THE debate that took place on the Punjab Excise Amendment Bill at Thursday’s meeting of the Legislative Council was not an excise debate at all, but a debate on one of those proposals to amend...
Lahore, Saturday, November 15, 1924 THE government’s review of the Punjab Excise Administration Report for 1923-24 contains a lengthy examination of the problem of illicit distillation and sale of excisable articles. This practice is said to prevail on an increasing...
Lahore, Friday, November 14, 1924 THE luminous statement which Pandit Motilal Nehru made to an Associated Press representative at Allahabad regarding the joint statement issued from Calcutta, to which he was himself a signatory, calls for a more careful and...
Lahore, Thursday, November 13, 1924 WE have already referred in a general way to that part of Sir Malcolm Hailey’s speech in the Punjab Legislative Council which relates to the Sikh situation. There is, however, one aspect of the matter...
Lahore, Wednesday, November 12, 1924 THE first thing that strikes one about the speech with which Sir Malcolm Hailey opened the session of the Punjab Legislative Council on Monday is that the province again has a Governor with a personality,...
Lahore, Tuesday, November 11, 1924 THE statements recently published by the Governor-General and the Government of Bengal in connection with the Bengal Ordinance throw a most interesting sidelight on the far-reaching effects of the non-cooperation movement, and conclusively prove the...
Lahore, Sunday, November 9, 1924 THE joint statement issued by Mahatma Gandhi, CR Das and Motilal Nehru divides itself into three parts. The preamble, which is not the least important of these parts, is not only wholly unexceptionable, but is...
Lahore, Saturday, November 8, 1924 IT was in the fitness of things that the speakers at the public meeting held in Bombay on Wednesday on the occasion of the ninth anniversary of the death of Sir Pherozeshah Mehta laid stress...
Lahore, Friday, November 7, 1924 CONSIDERABLE importance attaches to the interview which Lala Harkishen Lal gave to a representative of The Tribune regarding the points on which Sir John Maynard, in his evidence before the Reforms Enquiry Committee, had contradicted...
Lahore, Thursday, November 6, 1924 PRACTICALLY every province has, both through the Press and its accredited leaders, assured Bengal of its deep and genuine sympathy with her in the hour of her trouble. Nor is this mere lip sympathy. Everyone...
Lahore, Wednesday, November 5, 1924 THE Unity Conference, which opened at Delhi on September 26, concluded its sitting on Thursday after a week’s deliberations. The problem that it had taken upon itself to solve was the most difficult and delicate...
Lahore, Tuesday, November 4, 1924 THERE is a significant passage in the reply which Sir Malcolm Hailey gave to the address presented to him by a Muslim deputation on Wednesday last, which shows that His Excellency is by no means...
Lahore, Sunday, November 2, 1924 THE report on the administration of criminal justice in Punjab during 1923 shows that while there was a perceptible fall in the number of crimes during the year, the methods by which criminals were brought...
Lahore, Friday, October 31, 1924 THE Bengal Criminal Law Amendment Ordinance is one of the most drastic engines of repression that the inventive genius of the bureaucracy in India has perfected. It is, in fact, a new and revised edition...
Lahore, Thursday, October 30, 1924 IN going through the Governor General’s ordinance and the communique issued by the Bengal Government, one question that will naturally force itself even upon the minds of those who may honestly desire to support the...
Lahore, Wednesday, October 29, 1924 PUBLIC opinion all over India is strong and unequivocal in its condemnation of the action which Lord Reading and Lord Lytton have between them taken to deal with the alleged revolutionary movement in Bengal. The...
Chandigarh, Monday, October 28, 1974 As part of its political strategy for the Indian subcontinent, the Soviet Union has been shrewdly striving for a permanent foothold in Pakistan. It has already secured India’s lasting goodwill through generous economic assistance and...
Lahore, Sunday, October 26, 1924 IT is now some months since Sir Malcolm Hailey became Governor of Punjab. The reception that was accorded to him at Lahore on Friday morning was, therefore, nothing but a formal and conventional affair, unless,...
Lahore, Saturday, October 25, 1924 FROM October 16, when the Reforms Enquiry Committee re-assembled at Simla after a month and a half’s adjournment, to October 22, the last day for which the proceedings of the committee are before us at...
Lahore, Friday, October 24, 1924 THE controversy that has recently taken place in the Press and elsewhere over the question whether a settlement of the communal problem must precede a united endeavour on the part of different communities for the...