Himalayan Times (1950)

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a large extent, it is indeed an. up hill job
to create conditions of national solidarity.
We need political realism to deal 'with the
enemies of national solidarity and pract inrl
' _;_ steps arc lo lie taken wherewith national

Himalayan (Timts

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Kalimpong, June 11, 1950,

solidarity is achieved and maintained,
without which wishful thinking, exhorta-

NATIONAL SOLIDARITY tions, plans and se.he.mes are of litjtle avail.

P'ANPit Nehru, on the eve of his do- ' •••Country above everything", should

parture to Indonesia, addressing a large he the motto of Indian citizens Who have

audience at Trivandrum University Ma- ■ to lay their brick ami mortar in-raising the

"diuin, called upon the people of the Indian Motherland to the heights to her due. The

subcontinent to stand united and light, old lire of nationalism which once ani-

whal 11k> Prime'.MimsAer called,'"the tissi- mated tile Congress Movement ! need re-

parous apd separatist tendencies''. Those kindling, specially in the hearts, of-the

who are aware of the Indian situation in Indian youth. Salvation and eeonomico-

the international context, and particularly social freedom of Mother India should conic

in her relations with Pakistan, can hardly from her own nationals, from the citizens

oyer empnasise the need of national soli- of this country, men and woinen with

darity at the present juncture of Indian nerves of steel and adventurous living lo

history., ' lead tin ir great country to a greater future. ■

Any trace of commuhalism, separa- ■. j | he .deal of Motherland, ot the

tism, parochialism and provincialism is Country as a whole, that was uppermost

detrimental tq the cause of national soii. _ in the minds of our nUion-b lilders, from

darity. Even after the bitter lessons of the days of Ran) MohuYi'KOjI/Dadabai

' thi' past 1 ndian hi-!ory. which lately ended Naoroji down to Mahatin i Gandhi and

in tbi- vivisection of the one indivisible Bubhss Chandra, is fast dyfngldown and

Mother India, it is tragic that puple with it the urge to sacrifice, ri-k^ivl cVeate.
continue to think in terms of .Hindus, i'he monied'man clings to his wealth, the

Buddhists, Christians, Parsees and Sikhs, businessman prefers bis bank balance to.,
when the' Constitution of Free India is the interests nl the country, f he job-huuter
based on the Fundamental Pights of Man ami the careerist prefers his own social
as Man and on Indian citizenship. position and domestic pleasures to higher

l esides the broad economic no- interests of the country of his! birth and
bridgeb.de gulfs between the haves and love. The poor, the "dumb millions" of
have-nots, there are still the barriers, of Oandhiji's heart, are too pool" to live a
casts and creeds, of M.e hilUril.es and tlie decent human, life. Tlity multiply like
people of the plains,, 'of , the linguistic rats .and die like (lies. The trumpet call
groups and provincial walls ami other that was once sounded by the pioneers of
manifold steel-walls that stand in the way Indian .renaissance is also nowhere heard
of uniting, the people and cementing ha"- %nd the people sleep, lade and faint in the
tional solidarity in India. In a country villages and towns of India. The callous-
where political consciousness is .still "ess of life and the insensibility of heart
dormant. Where there is hardly any broad are there to blur afresh tho darker clouds
public opinion, mostly in the'rural areas, that veil the. Queen of iJcautj. and, Grace
where the dead, anachronistic, suicidal 'hat is our Motherland.
Ba..o-ceGUom;c conditions still continue io • (Continual on'pagt 9)