The Indian villager is not merely the subject of an academic, psychological or sociological study. The Planning Commission and the Central and State legislatures are laying down plans and enacting legislation in which he is the pivotal figure. Unless there is a clear conception of what he is and what he stands for and the environment in which he lives and works the result may well be entirely different from what...

All books are divisible into two classes, the books of the hour and books of the time. Mark this distinction-it is not one of quality only. It is not merely the bad book that does not last, and the good one that does. It is a distinction of species. There are good books for the hour and good ones for all time; bad books for the hour and bad ones for...

India will find herself again when freedom opens out new horizons and the future will then fascinate her far more than the immediate past of frustration and humiliation. She will go forward with confidence, rooted in herself and yet eager to learn from others and cooperate with them. Today she swings between a blind adherence to her old customs and a slavish imitation of foreign ways. In neither of these can...

Some people attack the Public School in the name of social equality. They say that the Public School is a class institution seeking to perpetuate those characteristics which the ruling class considers essential for the continued maintenance of its authority over the other classes. 15 importance on horse-riding, sports, individual competition and rivalry and such other features, proceeds from the basic assumption that its products are to be trained for domination...

A horde of displaced persons on the move throughout the summer months is one of the problems of our age. What is the meaning of this yearly migration? Why do hundreds of thousands of human beings feel impelled to leave comfortable homes for the certain misery of the voyage and the uncertain amenities of the arrival, not to speak of danger to life and limb? Americans see typhoid germs wickedly lurking...

In a predominantly agricultural and overpopulated country in which rural population constitutes 80 to 85 per cent of the total, planning to be effective and successful, has to start from village level. Planning at village level must take into account all the facts of socio-economic life of the people and ultimately it should aim at increasing agricultural production consistent with growth expansion and an ever rising living standard of the people....