Harijan Ahmedabad — Sunday May 10 1942

Even the old horse-bus driver was a conversational person to sit beside whom was something of a privilege; the driver of the motor vehicle is necessarily insulated." (The italics are mine.) Here is an idyllic picture of a Scottish family in the middle of the eighteenth century from the pen of William and Robert Chambers taken from their Memoir: " The farm of Tedderfield situated on the hillface [...] The Registrar of the Allahabad University writes that " the University is fully alive to the necessity of making Hindi or Urdu the medium of instruction and it will surely take steps as occasion arises." In the Benares Hindu University " the examinees up to the Intermediate examination are permitted to answer their optional papers in Hindi. [...] (c) The language of books should be left to the discretion of the authors." It is a pity that the Lucknow University is thinking of introducing the Roman script. [...] The Registrar of the Travancore University writes thus : " This University fully appreciates the need for reform in this direction but practical difficulties such as the lack of suitable text-books of the right standard in the various subjects the problem of the migration of students to and from this University etc. [...] Meanwhile the introduction of foreign soldiers the admitted inequalities of treatment of Indian and European evacuees and the manifestly overbearing behaviour of the troops are adding to the distrust of British intentions and declarations.