Articles by Nishtar

In Battle Array Nishtar NEVER before had cotton men got together in such large numbers as they did at the two-day conference in New Delhi, on June 22 and 23, to protest against proposals for state take-over of internal trade and import of cotton, the ban on hedge trading, and discrimination in the matter of credit dispensation. Over 2,500 traders, including some representatives of growers and millowners, attended the conference to present a united front in the battle for survival. In his presidential address, the EICA chief, Madanmohan R Ruia, stated that the proposed measures were based mainly on political considerations and had no economic justification. He set the tone for the conference by declaring that "we are not willing to give way to a hungry group of politicians and bureaucrats wanting to take away our all "on the false pretext of saving the fanner and consumer from the socalled exploitation of the trade or mid dlemen. The delegates who spoke on the occasion let it be known in no inistakable terms that they would not succumb to Government threats and would "fight and fight" against the nationalisation of the cotton trade.

not merely passive purveyors of knowledge but spearheads of social change. Even on the racial problem it is the universities which have taken the lead in challenging established attitudes.

combination of what research has shown as suitable for research based and marketing-based organisations. Many organisational studies have shown that, by and large, such organisations need highly sophisticated patterns of role-relationships, sensitivity on the part of senior executives for interpersonal relationships and complex systems of mutual influence among peers and superiors and explicit processes of decision making based on such influence.

And Now, a Radio University! Eunice de Souza V K R V RAO'S proposal to set up an Air University and his ideas for celebrating International Education Year in 1970 indicate that India is in for another jamboree of the kind inflicted on the country during the Gandhi Centenary Year. There is to be a rash of seminars on subjects such as Vinoba Bhave's "significant contribution to the development of Indian languages" and country-wide celebrations of the birth centenary of Maria Montessori, None of this is anywhere near the crux of the matter: is the content of our education relevant to the needs of a developing society and is our system adjusted to serving them? The Education Minister's Radio University scheme has been inspired by Britain's success in setting up a similar scheme but the fact that he says the proposal will be discussed in yet another seminar in Bombay later this year shows that little thought has gone into what this kind of university requires and whether it is really a sensible way of meeting the needs of higher education in India. :. The aim of Britain's Open University, as it has been called, is to offer courses at both graduate and post-graduate levels, without requiring any formal entrance qualifications, to people who are, for reasons that have nothing to do with their intellectual abilities, denied access to such courses through other channels. The great majority of the students

Moscow and Washington. It seems that this is a major reason why China and India are not talking. Talks with China will have to come as a part of an independent reorientation of our foreign policy. This does not mean that an anti- Soviet or an anti-American posture is a precondition for talks with China. But it does mean more tangible acts of independence of the super powers