The Calcutta Weekly Notes May 6 1946

How one hopes that our politicians breathing the serene air of the Himalayan highlands thought and thought hard of the life and problems of our people on the plains shed all cynicism and re crimination and once and for all' put India an the map as a free and happy country determiing its own destiny ! The Cabinet Mission will no longer conduct unilateral talks separately with the Congress and [...] Lahiri has won a place for himself as one of the leading younger practitioners on the Appellate Side distinguished for a certain elegance in the presentation of his case before the Court apart from the learning and lucidity which he brings to bear on it. [...] highest tribunal in the British Empire to be one of the most interesting and intricate cases in the history of litigation in any country. [...] In cases where complete Hinduisation is proved the parties are to be prima facie govered by the rules of Hindu law and the burden of proving that any special custom obtains in the community either as a relic of their non-Hindu period or otherwise is upon the party who sets it up. [...] A Court executing a mortgage decree which directs the sale of a specified property cannot allow the judgment-debtor or his legal reprsentatives to object that such a decree is not at the time capable of execution either because the judgment-debtor had no right originally to excute the mortgage bond upon the basis of which the mortgage decree has been passed or that since the date of the mort