The Radical Humanist Formerly Independent India - Organ of the Radical Humanist Movement September 4 1949

AIMS OF EDUCATION IT is reported that the basic feature of the recommendations 1 of the University Commission which submitted its report to the Government of India last week was to make education more Indian in character in conformity with the genius and culture of the people of India.' Since no details are available in elucidation of this aim it is difficult to understand what exactly the Com [...] The crisiof our time cannot be solved by the quack remedies of a mixture of Democracy and Socialism but by approaching all the problems on the basis of the dictum that Man is the measure of everything.' Radical Democracy and humanist co-operative economy offer the only adequate solution. [...] But it was not only a revolt against the provincial party caucus; the authority of the High Commanwas also flouted by a resolution which declared that " the Congress Working Committee has done an injustice to West Bengal by taking the decision in the absence of the Premier of the province of forming an interim ministry before the proposed general election in the province by effecting a chang [...] This volume the second in the series covers the period btween the opening of the German 'attack on France and the end of 1940. [...] Its main events therefore ' are the collapse of France the German air attacks on Britain the increasing involvement of the United States in the war the stepping-up of the U-boat wafare and the beginning of the long struggle in North Africa.