From 50 Years Ago: Spheres of Commitment

Vol II, No 50 decEMber 23, 1967

Spheres of Commitment

In many ways, big and small, ‘Economic and Political Weekly’ has the advantage of standing on the shoulders of ‘Economic Weekly’. Readers, contri­butors and advertisers have abided by us. But the political and economic setting for the formative years of this journal is different from that of the fifties when ‘Economic Weekly’ struck roots. The constants of those years — Congress rule, planning, secularism, non-alignment — have all been eroded where they have not been swept away altogether. …