Some of the things which science has given us have certainly helped make our lives happier. Science has helped us to get rid of many sicknesses of the body. That is a great thing. It is difficult to be happy our body is full of pain. Scientists have made many discoveries which have helped to make painless, and to remove the causes of pain and sickness. By making it possible to...

The danger to the university is all the greater in a country like ours.  For here the university is apt to be increasingly subjected not merely to the pressures of a confused nationalism but also to those of caste and linguistic chauvinism. These pressures are manifested in a variety of including the demand for state intervention in order to make varsity bend to the strident cry of the mass man. Most...

It is not that India did not know Democracy in the past. There was a time when she was studded with republics and even where there were monarchies, they were either elected or limited. They were never absolute. But in the course of time India lost that democratic system. Will she lose it a second time? I do not know. But it is quite possible that in a country like India-where...

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...