Report on the Session of the First Conference of the Indian National Commission for Cooperation with Unesco April 9-10 1949

The proceedings of the Conference began with the singing of the National Anthem 'Jana Gana Mana'.3 3. After the song the Hon'ble Minister for Education requested the Hon'ble Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru Prime Minister of India to inaugurate the Indian National Commission. [...] have to understand another factor and it is this in the course of the last few hundred years the political centre of the world was in Europe and recently though somewhat transferred to the Americas still Europe remained in a sense the centre of war or peace the centre of. [...] gravity when political problems and political conflicts arose and it became the fashion and the custom to consider Asia as a kind of fringe of Europe and Asia's problem as somehow minor parts of the European problems with the result that the great problems of Asia were neglected and no attention was paid to them whether in the political or economic sphere. [...] The obligation under the constitution of holding the General Conference in a different country each year has added to the burdens of the Secretariat but inspite of such initial difficuties the progress achieved holds promise of still greater achievements in the future. [...] Poidhkvisimon as the Chairman of the Executive hoard has brought a.Asian to the Head of the Organization for the first time.