Independent India February 13 1949

The meeting expressed the opinion that the riots were caused by the political social and economic structure of the country " based on differential and discriminatory treatment of various race groups and the preaching in high places of race intolerance and hatred." There can be no doubt that this analysis of the °Ruses of the riots is correct. [...] The tempations held out by power have continually increased due to the increase in the power of the state thanks to the contribution of science and technology and with the growth of the temptation tite scramble has in proportion been intensified. [...] That precisely is the approach of the Radical Hurnduist Movement and the validity of the approach can be easily established on the basis of an elimination of all the other alte--..s.tly es. [...] My endeavour is to try to understand and interpret scientifically and in a rational manner that portion of the teaching in the Gita which deals with the above and see whether on the basis of the explanation of the physical reality as pointed out in the Gita a system of ethics essentially rational and conducive to the welfare of human society can be built up. [...] The conference which rightly caught the attention of the West was the meeting of agricultural scientists at which Lysenko won his final victory over academic genetics and the name of the Russian gardener Michurin with his contempt of the recognised laws of heredity was exalted to the Soviet pantheon.