Onward 30th August 1933

And as we do so we feel that we are doing the merest mere of a service to the thousands of the rate-payers of this City who have to play the part of a passive audience to the doleful song blowing out of the Municipal Chambers of Calcutta. [...] Have our leaders done or attempted to do anything towards the eradication of this plague-spot slowly diseasing and poisoning the whole fabric of the society ? You know the health of the province is deteriorating which accompanies the deterioration of the purchasing power of human units ; the population is on the increase unhealthy and unsound. [...] The three prominent parties of the day however were the 'Bacwards' and 'Forwards' and the 'Centrals.' The first were for eschewing every thing western and reverting to the days of primtive simplicity the second were for building up a new India on the model of western countries and the third were for steering a course midway between the two. [...] Although the Centrals could not claim to have a large following in the country they got into the Sabha as the majority party takinadvantage of the tough fight between the Backwards and the Forwards in the election. [...] The review was arranged on an open piece of land in the Maidan just to the north of the spot where the Fort stood in the days of British rule.