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For one thing, "The Sind Ban on Satyartha Prakash"
contained a few sentences of criticism of Sir Francis Mudie's
'conduct as Home Member of the Government of India
'during the Central Assembly discussion on the adjournment
motion on the Sind ban, moved by Bhai Parmanand Ji. Of
:course we meant nothing personal against him, and could
never persuade ourselves that a person of his status, attain-
ments and responsibility could be so intolerant of such
merited popu'ar criticisms, or could view them with anything
but with equanimity and large-hearted sympathy.
Sind has become a land of bans, and bans—a regular
succession of them. If oae ban obliges the ministerial party
interests, there must be another which might serve to
preserve certain outworn marks of gubernatorial prestige.
That is but natural. Because one unjust measure or order
cannot stand all alone. It perforce needs the constant support
of other acts or measures of injustice. Thus injustices
usual ply. And so, vice spreads much more rapidly and with
far greater ease than virtue.
An uujust act becomes indispensable if one must support
An unholy cause, an evil. Wherever there is a conscious
effort to suppress the truth, distort facts, prejudice reason,
malign virtue, twist the law, abuse authority, or barter
away the sacred freedom of exalted office, we must know,
it is all for vicious propitiation of arrant, arrogant selfishness
of this individual or that party's interests and for nothing
-else. It is proper to look in such quarters for the breeding-
ground of all injustices and all other sub-human contaminat-
ing vices.
A Ministerial-gubernatorial co-operation, without which
such bans as are 'rmosed in Sind a .e impossible, and which
serves as a nursery of multiplicity of injustices and sins, is
certainly an unholy and unhealthy alliance, a serious misfor-
tune which must be averted, if not soon eradicated. Bengal
today experiences the effects of a climax in the working.
of a scheme of British-Muslim League alliance reached in
India's constitutional march under the British aegis. It
is not without its own bitter lessons to India. There is no
security of life and property and of human honour for Hindus