The Teachers' Journal. November 1950

After learning the duties of scouts they devote them elves to the uplift of the village of Bhuhandanga and the hamlets of the Santals. [...] From one corner of the world to the other all the people without any distinction of caste and creed and of racial and national ideologies burst forth in agonized wailings to see the blazing light extinguish leaving the world unquenchably athirst for knowledge and grope in the darkness of stagnation without any illuminating flicker that so long emanated from the dazzling torch of the greatest inte [...] The extreme leftists of to-day degenerate into the case-hardened conservatists of to-morrow and the revolutionary thoughts of the dramatists of the twentieth century may not satisfy the neo-revolutionary of the next who would turn to the shelf containing the volumes of Shaw for antiquarian curiosity. [...] From my early days I had heard and read of the sacredness of the profession —of the immense opportunities the teachers had of making or marring the destinies of nations and of the respect they had ever commanded in public esteem"No% 19501 BEHIND THE PRISON BAR 399 in spite of their admitted poverty. [...] I began to speak out freely and scathingly against the abuses and the factors that were responsible for having brought them in The shaft of my tongue was directed impartially at the public.1950] BEHIND THE PRISON BAR 40 the government the university the teachers the students and the leaders.