Gulaami Ane Maut
જ્યાં સુધી દુનિયાનો એક પણ મુલક ગુલામીમાં હશે, ત્યાં સુધી જગતમાં ચેન પણ નથી અને શાંતિ પણ નથી.
મરણ તો ઈશ્વરનિર્મિત છે. કોઈ કોઈને પ્રાણ આપી શકતું નથી, કે લઈ શકતું નથી, પ્રજાના રક્ષણ માટે આપણા પ્રાણ ખિસ્સામાં લઈને ફરીએ તો જ આપણે સ્વતંત્રતાનો પહેલો પાઠ શીખ્યા કહેવાઈએ.
TODAY THAT DAY : 20 FEBRUARY 1931
GANDHI SEES THE VICEROY
EMERGENCY MEETING WITH CONGRESS LEADERS
The Viceroy granted a further interview to Gandhi yesterday at New Delhi. After leaving the Viceroy's house Gandhi drove to the residence of the Pandit Malavaya, where he held a consultation with various leaders of commerce. He subsequently returned to the house of Dr. Ansari and had a discussion with Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, Mr. Vallabhbhai Patel, and other members of the Working Committee.
Political circles consider that the temporary interruption of pourparlers will continue till February 24, when the talks between the Viceroy and Gandhi will be resumed after Lord Irwin has ascertained the opinion of the British Government.
Congress circles, though sceptical, do not reveal any marked pessimism regarding the final outcome of the conversations.
Gandhi proposes to fulfill a number of local engagements, which have been successively cancelled owing to the Viceregal talks. He is to address a public meeting in the Queen's Gardens to-day, but owing to fears of a crowd admission to the meeting will be by ticket only, this being the first time in Delhi that Gandhi will deliver a lecture with such precautions.
TODAY THAT DAY : 20 FEBRUARY 1925
A SWARAJIST DEFEAT
An interesting discussion took place in the Legislative Assembly yesterday on Mr. V. J. Patel's bill to deprive colonials, Americans and Europeans (excluding British subjects) of privileges in criminal trials in India. Sir Purushotamdas, Thakurdas, as Bombay merchant, opposed the bill, which he feared would be treated as a retaliatory measure, and might upset the negotiations which were on foot with Union Government. A motion for the adjournment of the consideration of the bill was carried by 44 votes to 42, thus defeating the extremist Swarajist section.
Kaayarta Ane Laaj
કાયરતા અને લાજ
તલવાર ચલાવી જાણે છતાં તલવાર મ્યાન રાખે તેની જ અહિંસા સાચી કહેવાય. કાયરોની અહિંસાની કિંંમત કેટલી?
જેને લાજ નથી તેની શી લાજ જવાની છે? જે પોતાની લાજનું રક્ષણ નથી કરતો તેની લાજ બીજું કોણ બચાવી શકવાનું છે?
Yogya Samay
યોગ્ય સમય
કેરીનું ફળ કવખતે તોડશો તો તે ખાટું લાગશે. દાંત અંબાઈ જશે. પણ તેને પાકવા દઈશું તો તે આપોઆપ તૂટી પડશે અને અમૃતસમું લાગશે.
TODAY THAT DAY : 16 FEBRUARY 1947
HINDUS WARN BRITISH
Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, a top ranking leader in the All-India Congress party, said yesterday that the congress would quit the interim government if the British fail to compel the Moslem League to participate in the constituent assembly.
Leaders of the predominantly Hindu congress have asked the British to require the Moslem League to take part in the assembly's work of drafting a charter for Indian Independence or get out of the interim cabinet.
TODAY THAT DAY : 15 FEBRUARY 1946
INDIA AT CROSSROADS
MOMENTOUS YEAR
For India, 1946 promises to be the most momentous year in its history.
There are several possibilities for changes in the country’s political structure, and the full development of any one would be the major historical event (writes Preston Grever from Bombay).
Conceivably India might obtain full independence in the next 12 months, or she might choose a slower course and progress towards self-government through a constitutional convention in complete and friendly co-operation with Britain. She might divide into two India – One governed by Hindus and one by Moslems, and, if conflicts arise which frustrated the hopes and plans of India’s political leaders, there might be revolution.
The end of World War II automatically eliminated all reasons for restraining political developments long held in cheek. Congress leaders, who were gaoled in 1942, were released and agitation for quick action to bring independence to India boiled up to a pitch not recalled by observers of this generation.
The Viceroy (Lord Wavell) made a final futile attempt to bring the Moslem League and the All-India Congress into agreement on the unity of the country or even on collaboration in the central government.
Elections for the Central Assembly showed that India’s major parties had split up on religious lines to a greater degree than had been anticipated.
In the Central Assembly elections, fewer than 500,000 or the country’s 400,000,000 residents voted. It was known generally as the “rich man’s election” because only wealthy property owners and a small number of others qualified under the limited franchise.
According to a tabulation by “The Times” (India) the Moslem League headed by Mahomed Ali Jinnah, polled 86 percent of the Moslem votes in Moslem areas, while in predominantly Hindu areas, the All India Congress party candidates drew nearly 89 percent of the votes.
As a result of the elections the Jinnah followers argued that the Moslem League was the sole organisation with authority to speak for Moslems, while Congress leaders contended the league was composed mainly of rich landlords and wealthy merchants.
The Congress Party contended further that the provincial elections which began in January and will end in April will show that a wider electorate including many poor Moslems will look to the Congress for leadership.
The Congress party leader Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel predicts that “freedom is coming”.
“Perhaps we will get it next year” he said in December. “It is only necessary to give one last determined push to Britain. That push will not be of any small section, but of 400,000,000 people of India united in a single resolve.”
Englishmen with long experience in India say, on the other hand that the tug of war between the Moslem League and Congress will go on for years and that it might be 10 to 25 years before anything approaching self-government could be expected.
Some observers predict that by March there will be bloody uprisings and that the full force of the British Army still in uniform in India will be required to suppress it, if suppression is possible.
One usually good barometer of sentiment is the stock market. There are no signs that British investors in India are selling out abnormal rates in anticipation that the Indian National Government will render their holdings worthless. For a long time there has been a drift in that direction with Indian capitalists purchasing whatever British investors choose to release, but the transfer rate discloses no sudden panic.
Some American and British business houses especially those dealing in automobiles and chemicals seems eager to increase their holdings in India, indicating their belief in a peaceable future.
TODAY THAT DAY : 11 FEBRUARY 1948
INDIAN LEADER MENACED
Armed police guarding the house of the Deputy Prime Minister of India (Sardar Patel) arrested a man with a dagger whose movements were suspicious. The man earlier tried to enter the house.
Reuter's Poona correspondent says police arrested 10 members of the banned Moslem League National Guard, also S. L. Karandikar, a member of the Bombay Legislative, who is also a member of the Hindu Mahasabha.
SACHO GUJARATI
સાચો ગુજરાતી હો તો શરમ આવે તેવું કામ ન કરજો. નીચી મૂંડીએ ન કરજો. બારણાં બંધ કરી ભરાઈ ન બેસો.
થાકી જાઓ ત્યારે ઘડીક ઉભા રહેજો, પણ પાછું ડગલું તો ન જ ભરજો.
TODAY THAT DAY : 10 FEBRUARY 1940
NEW PLAN SUGGESTED FOR INDIA
CONFERENCE OF CENTRAL AND PROVINCIAL LEGISLATURE
A proposal for a basis of settlement of the Indo-British problem is made by Mr. Vallabhbhai Patel, Mr. Gandhi's chief lieutenant and chairman of the Parliamentary Board of the Congress Working Committee. He suggests (Dr. Landa Sundaram says in a message from New Delhi to "The News-Chronicle") the convocation of a conference of members of the Central and Provincial Legislatures in place of the Constituent Assembly.
This accords with Mr. Gandhi;s latest ideas. It is also warmly supported by the Aga Khan, whose arrival in India synchronises with a general desire for the liquidation of the India problem by all parties. However, the Congress demand for a declaration regarding freedom for Indians and the framing of Constitution still awaits acceptance by the British Government.
Peechehath
બીજાને આશરે રહેવામાં કંગાલિયત છે. રાતદિવસ કામ કરનાર સહેજે ઈંદ્રિયો ઉપર સંયમ મેળવે છે.
થાકી જાઓ ત્યારે ઘડીક ઊભા રહી જજો, પણ પાછું ડગલું તો ન જ ભરજો.
TODAY THAT DAY : 09 FEBRUARY 1948
MOSLEM GUARD BANNED
It was announced to-day that the Moslem League National Guard has been declared unlawful throughout the Indian Dominion. It is alleged to have been "Secretly collecting arms, training its members in the use of arms, and fomenting agitation with members of an organisation across the border."
The militant Islamic organisation, whose members are known as Khaksars, has also been banned. It is roughly the equivalent of the Hindu extremist R. S. S. organisation.
Security measures have been tightened in Delhi. Armed guards being posted at the residences of all Ministers. The area in which Pandit Nehru and Sardar Patel, Deputy Premier, occupy neighboring houses resembles an armed camp.
TODAY THAT DAY : 08 FEBRUARY 1948
GANDHI FATALISTIC
Gandhi believed his life was in God's hands and that, if he had to die, no precautions would save him, the Times Delhi correspondent reports, quoting the Indian Home Minister (Sardar Patel)
Mr. Patel said on Friday that Gandhi had refused to allow searches to be made of persons visiting prayer meetings.
A purge of the whole party to "set its house orders" has been demanded in a New Delhi Congress Party working committee resolution.
The committee urges that a supreme effort to establish communal harmony should be made as a result of Gandhi's death, and that every individual in India should contribute 10 days income to establish a Gandhi National Memorial Fund.
NO IMPASSABLE BARRIERS
Under the Cabinet Mission Plan and the Statement of June 3, 1947, the States were left free to decide their future through negotiations with the Indian Union. To facilitate settlement with the States, the Government of India decided to constitute a separate States Department. On the 5th July, 1947, when this States Department was set up, Sardar Patel, Minister for the newly created Department issued this statement of policy governing the States.
TODAY THAT DAY : 07 FEBRUARY 1948
GANDHI DIED POOR
Possessed No Property
London Feb, 6 - Devadas Gandhi said to-day that his father, Mahatma Gandhi possessed no property and left no will says the Associated Press correspondent in New Delhi, Mahatma Gandhi desired that any properties nominally his should go to charity and projects for the uplift of India.
The Minister of Home Affairs, Mr. Sardar Patel told Parliament that Gandhi rejected his entreaties that people visiting his prayer meetings should be searched. "Every precaution was taken to protect Gandhi except this search and the assassin exploited the weak spot." Mr. Patel said.
According to a British United Press report from New Delhi, the police said to-day that 1100 Hindu extremists had been arrested throughout India since Gandhi's assassination.
A mob in Jubbulpore forced the editor of the weekly newspaper to drink from a gutter because he was alleged to have written anti Gandhi articles.
Reuter's Madras correspondent says that the Provincial Government has suspended nine communal organisations in addition to the R. S. S. (Rashtriya Swayam Sevak Sangh)
DHARMA PARIVARTAN
દેશમાં ધર્મપરિવર્તન વ્યક્તિઓનું નહિ સમુદાયોનું થાય છે, બળજબરીથી થાય છે, ત્રાસ વર્તાવવામાં આવે છે. ખોટી લાગવગ થાય છે. છોકરાઓને વટાળવામાં આવે છે.
gandhi
gandhiji
TODAY THAT DAY : 04 FEBRUARY 1939
GANDHI ACCUSES POLICE
By Our Own Correspondent, BOMBAY FRIDAY
"Organised hooliganism" by police of the Indian Government's political agency is alleged to-day by Mr. Gandhi.
He says that civil resisters in the small State of Rajkot have been taken to distant places on the State boundry, stripped and beaten, and then left to make their way home.
He also says that Red Cross doctors and ambulance parties were prevented from attending those injured following a lathi (Stave) charge in Halenda village.
Mr. Gandhi holds that the British Resident in Rajkot is responsible for the present strained relations between State's ruler, the Thakore Sahib, and his people.
He appeals to the Viceroy to study the situation deeply.
To-day Mrs. Gandhi and Miss Maniben Patel, daughter of Mr. Vallabhbhai Patel were arrested in Rajkot. Both were taken by car to an unknown destination though it is regarded as probable that they are being escorted back to British India.
Mr. Vallabhbhai Patel, speaking in Bombay to-day, accused the British Government to setting up the Princes to fight Congress, while making pompous statements in the British Parliament about non-interference in the Prince's relations with their subjects.
DOSH
ભગવાન ક્યારેય કોઈને બીજાના દોષોને માટે સજા કરતો નથી. દરેક માણસ પોતાના જ દોષે દુ:ખી થાય છે. આપણા દુ:ખ માટે તો આપણા પાપ જવાબદાર છે.
STREESHAKTI
સ્ત્રી જેટલી શક્તિ તો પુરુષોમાં પણ નથી. સ્ત્રીઓની સહનશક્તિ ઘણીજ હોય છે. સ્ત્રીઓએ તો પુરુષોમાં પણ શક્તિ પૂરી છે.
VAFADARI
નાલાયક અને બીકણ પ્રજાની વફાદારીમાં માલ નથી. નીડર અને સ્વમાન જાળવનારી પ્રજા જે વફાદારી બતાવે છે તે જ પ્રજા સરકારને શોભા આપનારી છે.
Ashprushyata
અસ્પૃશ્યતા એ હિંદુ ધર્મ ઉપર કલંક છે. એ ધર્મને બહાને ચાલતો ઢોંગ છે. એને આપણે નાબૂદ કર્યે જ છુટકો છે. ઢેઢ-ભંગીનો તિરસ્કાર કરી આપણાં કર્મનાં ફળ આપણે ભોગવીએ છીએ.
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