AU IUDEPEUDEUT JOURtiAL OF PUDLIC AFFAIRS EDITOR: D. M. KULKARNI l·lAKE ENGliSH THE LINGUA FRANCA OF INDIA ANNUAL SUBSCRIPTION Rs. 6.00 Vol. XI No. 21 February 1, 1964 Page EDITORIAL: Paskistan's Perfidy And India's Pusillanimity 2 Right, Left, And Centre At Bhuvaneshwar 5 Bu 1\f. A. Venkata Rao - Fcudul Cart Before The Socialist Horse 7 By l\f, N. Tholal 1ntcmatioit~l Chamber of Commerce 9 'By 1\torarii /. \'Qiyda DELIII LETTER: The Kamaraj Curse 10 Pidurc of Nehru As a Communist 12 By /. M. Lobo PrabT!u Book 1\evciw 13 The Mind of the Nation 14 Sews And \"icws u Dt·ar J.:Jitor 91 ........... -:;. ,~ __ . \ .,I t EDITORIAL Pakistan's Perfidy T was said of a certain Prime-Minister of England· PAKISTAN'S· PERFIDY I that he was a Conservative at home and a Liberal As for Pakistan Govern e t ·t · · "th I f d · t"fi t" "t ld m n • 1 IS 1eavmg no a b ro~.d · . WI equa or~e an JUS •1 ca ton, 1 cou stone unturned to worsen this communal situation in be sa1d an the same stram that Ind1a Government on - the lndo-Pak reg• n Born and b d · · · d · d 1· · h · · 10 · re an an atmos­ Its own _part, IS strong an stem m ~a ~ng_ w~t Its phere of illwill and hatred for India, it appears that own nationals at home and weak and t1m1d m Its re- the Pak-rulers cannot but ex lo't · "d · · h · · l'k Pak" d p 1 even an mc1 ent Iat•_ons Wit Its enemy countnes • e . •stan -~ like the theft of a 'Holy Hair' from a certain mosque Chma abroad. Our Government, while adhenng in Shrinaaar in Kashmir for ·nc·t· g M 1· · · tl t "t d f • d • · • • · _ . "' . , 1 1 m us •ms agamst s t n~ Y o I s cree . ~ peace a~ non Vlo.en~e 10 Hmdus. In gross VIolation of the Nehru-Liyaquat ~en ted. fro!D Gandhi, an face _of v1olent aggressiOn on Pact of 1950, the Pal< Newspapers even went to the 1ts temto~es by these e~em•es, seems. tl) h~ve least length of attributing the recent illness of Mr. Nehru c~'!'punctu;m to throw tt to. the wands 1':1 , dom- to his 'abominable sin' of abetting the theft of the cstJc atfatr~. !he ?~de.rs to. shoot. to k•ll. and sacred hair from the Mosque. They have simply no~ merdr to tmmob•hse the noters 10 ~~e City of held up to ridicu!e the sincere appeal made by Presi­ Ca.cutt~, Issued somedays back to the .m•htary _and dent Radhakrishnan to President Ayubkhan for issu­ the police. by the <?ov~rnment, almost m a pan_Jcky ing a joint appeal for communial harmony and peace st~te of mmd, resultmg 1';1 the !oss of 41 h~an bves, both in India and Pakistan. Not to be out-done by without the Governments takmg any effectlye steps the Pakistani press, President Ayubkhan also has to. stop mur<ter, arson,_ rape and loot of l~nocent thought it fit to slyly hint at the probability of the Hm~u men and women m Kh_ulna and _Dacca m East holy hair having been stolen by a Hindu. Not only Pa~1stan, are an apt illustration of th1s weak-kneed that. He is now reported to have rejected uncere­ pohcy of our Government. moniously the offer made by the Indian President of joint co-operation in bringing about communal un-. GOVERNMENT'S SELF-COMPLA.CENCY derstanding and peace; Over and above that, the·· Pakistan Government has now taken up the question This is not to say that our. Government is not in of Kashmir with the U. N. Security council, after duty ~ound to act energetically and effectively to save stirring up communal frenzy in Kashmir over the th~ hfe and .P~Operty of Indian nationals, be they hair through its agents. All these mean tactics of Hmdus, Chnst1ans or Muslims, from the incendiar­ Pakistan are intended to create acute tension be­ ~sm of the trouble-makers. But what is most surpris­ tween Hindus and Muslims all over India and Paki­ mg and even exasperating in this matter, is that the stan, so that they might be in a position to blackmail Government should self-complacently think that its India and press the Kashmir issue once again on the duty ends with _its shooting down dead almost equal attention of the United Nations and the World. Pak­ numbers belongmg to both the warring communities istani statesmen have now openly admitted that and someti_mes arresting them and raising punitive these riots have their· origin in political motives taxe~ on. n~t-affect~~ are~s . and t~us demonstrably which include the Kashmir question and the provmg 1ts secular 1mpart1ahty. T1me and a"ain it Pak Muslim expansionisn into West Bengal, Tripura has been pointed out to the Central Govern~ent' at and Assam. Delhi thr~ugh petitions and personal representations, that Pa~1stan Government has been systematically DRASTIC SOLUTIONS NECESSARY attemptmg to squeeze out the Hindu minority from ~oth cast and West Pakistan, by deliberately inflam­ Obviously, therefore, these ever-recurring com­ mg the communal passions of the Muslims against munal disturbances in Kashmir and Bengal have to the Hindus. Besides, it is a fact now too well-known be tackled at the very base and India Government that the Pakistan Government is abetting mass in­ will do well to go to the roots of these problems. filtration of Muslims into west Bengal, Tripura and On the Kashmir issue, the time has now come for Assam. After Rajshahi disturbances last year, in our Government to make up its mind once for all. East Pakistan, Mr. Nehru told the Parliament that It should decide either to completely integrate the the issue of Hindu minority in Pakistan would be Kashmir State with India if it is very serious about taken up shortly along with this problem of illegal its 'secularism' or to partition the State of Kashmir inftux of Pakistani Muslims into Indian territory. and Jammu between Pakistan and India on the same E\'en now after the recent Calcutta disturbances, Mr. lines on which Bengal and Punjab were partitioned Nanda the Home Minister has repeated the same as­ in 1947. As for the communal tangle in Bengal and surances. But these assurances as experience has the problem of illegal infiltration of Pak Muslims in­ shown, are ne,·er kept and are clean forgotten no to the Indian territory of West Bengal, Tripura and sooner than peace and order is temporarily restored Assam, the India Government should now take up in the disturbed areas through police and military a firm stand and in the first instance call upon the action. and terrorisation . East Pakistan Government to stop this menace to 'Q_U·~.l~DI:\X LIRERT.\RI.\X 2 the Hindu population in Pakistan and the peace and better and more genuine stuff a~able in the security of West Bengal and Assam, within a definite market. period, by taking all the necessary steps suggested in the Nehru-Liyaquat Pact. of 1950. If the Pakistan ~ubl~c opinion ~-~i~h haile~ thi~ much needed Government fails to do so, then it will have proved modtficatlon of prohibttlon - ~-oltcy ~~posed on the the utter futility of an isolated Muslim area function- Bo?lbay State_ by Mr. Moral")t Desat, bas n~turally ing as a Pakistani pocket in the midst of the sur- · bemg scand_alised_ ~y the hasty re_treat wh1ch the rounding Indian territory. The India Government Bombay Chte.f Mtrust~~ ~as beaten m the face of_ a will then be justified even in helping and encouraging ba?'age of v_1olent cnttctsm of Sarvodaya fanatics those democratic and progressive forces in East ramed on this reform. Pakistan that are clamouring for a separate statehood Mr. Morarji is the arch-leader of this anti-social for East Pakistan. This bold stand of the Indian gang of _the so called Sarvodaya-vadis, who would not Government would be also a fitting rebuff to Ayub­ even mmd the law and order of the land bein" un­ khan and others who are instigating over all these dermined by the illicit liquor manufacturers and "trad­ years, the Kashmiris to rise in revolt against the ers. who are ~penly hand in glove with the corrupt Indian Government, in the name of self-determina­ pobce force, If only thereby their Sarvodaya eaoism tion and Islamic brotherhood. If a plebiscite is in­ and fool-hardiness could be satisfied. The loss ~f 400 sisted upon in Kashmir by President Ayubkhan, then crores of revenue to the country coupled with colos­ a similar demand for a plebiscite might be pressed sal . exp_enses !ncurred on the special prohibition by India in East Pakistan where a pretty large sec­ pohce IS nothing to these maniacs. One cannot but tion of Bengali Muslims is known to be in favour of be amused at the sight of Mr. Morarjibhai showing a separate statehood for East Bengal, if not in favour himself off as an expert on Sarvodaya of Gandhiji. of complete re-integration of that area with India. At ~huvaneshwar he showed what an ignoramus he The third alternative would be an exchange of was m the subjects of both Socialism and Gandhism Hindu and Muslim populations between East Bengal when he stupidly declared that Congress Socialism and West Bengal to be carried out in a definite num­ ~ould in _the end lead to Sarvodaya.