The Calcutta Weekly Notes December 13 1948

And ever since Montesquieu wrote his L’Esprit des Lois “ one of the most important books ever written ” the coception of the separation of the judiciary and the executive has made so to speak a tour of the world and found ready and ardent acceptance wherever liberty is prized. [...] This idea of the separation of the judiciary and the executive has had a firm grip on political thought in this country and in the good old days of the Congress when silver-tongued orators like Surendrnath Banerjea and Lalmohan Chose gave strident expression to the voice of a new India straining at the ties of servitude and pining for the chartered freedom they had learnt to cherish from the [...] He cited a recent instance of conflict between the Public Services Commission and the U. P. Government when the latter had ignored the former's recommendations and there had not been a tremor in the public mind nor even a debate in the U. P. Assembly." Refering to the Crimes Prevention Bill passed recently by the U. P. Assembly—about whose provisions we fear we are ignorant ----Mr. [...] Every right of the Soviet citizen is " ensured " by specific averment whether it is the right to work or to rest and leisure or to maintenance in old age and in case of sickness or loss of capacity to work the right/ to education to women's equality withlmen to the equality of all nationalities and races the right to freedom of concience of speech of the press of assembly etc. [...] Heir in every sense of the term to a splendid legal tradtion brought up so to speak in the lap of the law he is expected to follow in the foosteps of his great father the late Sir Astosh Mookerjee.