Independent India February 6 1949

PATENT CONTRADICTION FOLLOWING the Prime Minister the Deputy Prime Minister also spoke of the principles of the Mahatma and of their application to the present-day problems of India and the world. [...] A tendency has gr'oN:vn in the country to talk always of the glory of the nation and of its prestige in the international world and to neglect the solution of internal problems. [...] FOOD MINISTER'S WARNING THE over-all picture of the food position of the country that the Food Minister of the Government of India painted in the course of his speech to the Governing Body of the Indian Council of Agricultural Research was none toe. [...] The backwardness and the ignorance of the large masses he said were the foundation of the authority of the party in power. [...] The old conception of the mart versus the state or the man in the state or the individual the group and the state is losing its stronhold amongst new political thinkers.