BANGLA DESH : THE BURDEN IS TOO HEAVY FOR US
THE WEEKLY RADIANCE (Delhi) October 3, 1971
By S.F. Sinha, Senior Advocate, Supreme Court
In several of my articles I had ventured to write that time and tide wait for none and we should, without waiting for a nod of assent from any quarter, extricate ourselves from the quandry we have landed ourselves in. We should never have opened the flood-gates, but if, unfortunately and by mistake, we did we must somehow retrieve the position. The mock heroics of the Jan Sangh and the R.S.S. should not unnerve us.
It is easy to say that we shall spend our last ounce of blood for the Bangladesh but charity must begin at home and, if I may add, it must unless we have enough and to spare, spend at home. Have we enough even to feed ourselves? Is not the rise in the prices. breaking the back of the common man ? It must always be borne in mind that the common man is the back-bone of the country. The Jan Sangh and the R.S.S. may look to Big Business to fill their coffers. The Communists, with their spiritual home in Soviet Russia, may replenish their depleted resources in ways only known to them, but the claims of the common man, who earns his bread with the sweat of his brows, are paramount. He looks askance at this perverse charity—all at his cost.
By S.F. Sinha, Senior Advocate, Supreme Court
In several of my articles I had ventured to write that time and tide wait for none and we should, without waiting for a nod of assent from any quarter, extricate ourselves from the quandry we have landed ourselves in. We should never have opened the flood-gates, but if, unfortunately and by mistake, we did we must somehow retrieve the position. The mock heroics of the Jan Sangh and the R.S.S. should not unnerve us.
It is easy to say that we shall spend our last ounce of blood for the Bangladesh but charity must begin at home and, if I may add, it must unless we have enough and to spare, spend at home. Have we enough even to feed ourselves? Is not the rise in the prices. breaking the back of the common man ? It must always be borne in mind that the common man is the back-bone of the country. The Jan Sangh and the R.S.S. may look to Big Business to fill their coffers. The Communists, with their spiritual home in Soviet Russia, may replenish their depleted resources in ways only known to them, but the claims of the common man, who earns his bread with the sweat of his brows, are paramount. He looks askance at this perverse charity—all at his cost.
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