Vigil - An Independent Political Weekly Saturday May 13 1950

'be lifted in a planned maIndia's distrust of the Asian ner so that the individual regional self-help plan largely can get as much freedom as emanates from the fear that is consistent with the interests Britain and Australia who of the community and the are vigorously sponsoring the mand of the planned ecmove may steal a better part nomy." The National Plaof the cake for themselves. [...] It was created by the British with the help of the Muslim League (now the Government of Pakistan) and was forced on the Congress High Command literally at the point of the dagger. [...] There is significance in the fact that the Leader of the Opposition is given a salary charged on public funds so that he may perform the function of effetively criticising the goverment of the day without the worry and distraction of earing a living. [...] He like his fellow-slaves the dock-worker the handcart-load-pusher the municipal scavenger the fisherman used to go through the day looking forward to the anna's or two anna's worth of toddy that they would drink in convivial company squating on the dusty road-side outside the toddy shop at the end of the day's work. [...] Undetered by lack of invitation he manages to wriggle in drawn ' by the irresistible charm of the coloured lights that peep out of every tree in the garden and by the delicious crooings of the film stars that thanks to the invention of the gramophone are so ubquitously audible.