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....

Liberty is, in my view, inalienably bound up with democracy. When democracy has been strong, as in ancient Athens or in England before the War, citizen: have enjoyed a large measure of liberty. Moreover, fresh liberties were constantly being gained. When democracy has declined or has been superseded by other forms of government, liberty has declined with it. Under a dictatorship, liberty disappears. Hence the circumstances which have produced the decline...

We have seen that many craftsmen of former days put their heart and soul into their work. In many cases they produced the articles “elves from start to finish. The pleasure and pride which they felt in a well-made article cannot be equalled by the factory worker of today. In a big modern factory each worker contributes so little to the finished article that he does not think of it as...

We all agree that the growth of industries will increase our material wealth and that our needs in terms of food, clothing and housing will be adequately provided. But man has other needs too-the need for human relationship, love and sympathy, the need for a sense of dignity and worth, and the need for a sense of security. These are also basic human needs, and if they are not satisfied, there...

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...