While Hindi is expected to be the official language for all-India use, it is forgotten that it is only an all-India medium of higher education hat can appropriately be such a language. For various reasons the universities have found it difficult to accept Hindi as the medium of higher education. The difficulty is accentuated by an unplanned and uncoordinated effort at displacing English. Some of the universities in the Hindi-speaking States...

Motorists are all agreed that the cyclist is a menace on our roads. What has the cyclist got to say to that? Of course, the cyclist throws the blame for the high toll of accidents on the driver of the faster and more dangerous vehicles. The fact remains that the accidents in which cyclists are concerned have greatly increased in the last few years. The rise in the number of motor-cars...

The introduction of the principle of open competition for the recruitment of official was an important event in the history of political development. Yet it is a principle that is not always clearly understood. It is widely held – and the view receives constant endorsement from well-known authorities on administrative matters-that open competition sets out to ensure the selection of the best available individuals for the public services, and consequently that...

When acts are made punishable on the ground that those acts produce or are likely to produce certain evil effects, to what extent ought omissions, which produce or are likely to produce, the same evil effects, to be made punishable? Two things are evident: first, that some of these omissions ought to be punished in exactly the same manner in which acts are punished; secondly, that all these omissions ought not...

The state of education in India before the British occupation is, unfortunately, a favourite subject for political dissertations. This had led to a certain confusion of thought about the various types of indigenous teaching of which three were of importance in the eighteenth century. The ideal training for the Brahmin youth is of great antiquity and represents an extremely high standard of education. After assuming the sacred thread at the age...