The Calcutta Weekly Notes Law Notes and Notes of Cases of the Calcutta High Court and of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council and the English Law Courts Monday August 10 1925

Be it in the Bengalee Office or in the Minister's Chamber in the Secretariat be it in the days of dire adversity or of later prosperity the highest or the loWest the richest or the pooiest were equally welcome to him. [...] On the evening of t ae 6th of August the eve of the inauguration of the Sw.a.deshi movment :20 years vo his flaming funeral pile it up the sky above and the brimful bed of the Ganges below adjoining his lovely garden and villa when the western sky was aglow with t he rays of the setting sun. [...] The advocates of the theory of the crimnal's reformation respeot the human being in the criminal and refuse to use him merely as a means for the preservation of the state and therefore accept punishment for the crime not so much with a 'view to deter persons from its commission as to preserve the criminal from a relapse. [...] The chief objection against sening these offenders to jail is the forced assciation of criminals in circumstances which materially increase or tend to increase their moral depravity and their knowledge of crime and of the modes of its commission and of the means of eluding punishment. [...] to the proper working of any system in this country is the ignorance the poverty and the backwardness of the large mass of the population.