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...Delhi, Shriman Narayan, general secretary of Nehru's Congress Party, back from a tour of Kerala, reported a "complete breakdown of law and order." Red Minister Namboodiripad was proud of it: he plans, he said, to close many of the state's jails and turn their grounds into public flower gardens. He had already freed many Communists from jail, whatever the charges on which they were convicted...
...started out by telling the Communists: "The difference between you and me is the difference between a corpse and a living man," Bhave had come a long way. He still has the support of Socialist Leader Jaya Prakash Narayan (the most respected politician in India after Nehru), who had quit politics under the spell of Bhave's earlier idealism. But Narayan himself is deeply disturbed by the failures of redistribution, and now demands that every Indian university student compulsorily devote one year to Bhoodan work. Said Narayan last week: "We must be quick, or those who believe in violence...
Zealots' Reproach. Born to a poor peasant 51 years ago in a remote Bihar village, Jaya Prakash Narayan never saw a trolley car until he was 19. When he won a government scholarship, the facts of Indian life crowded in on him all at once. He joined Gandhi's civil disobedience movement. Thirsty for learning but respecting Gandhi's boycott of the British-controlled universities, Narayan went to the U.S. to study. He worked his passage to California, got a job sorting fruit, began studying at Berkeley. During eight years in the U.S., he studied science...
Jailed by the British in 1932 along with many other Congress leaders, Narayan conceived the idea of forming a Socialist group as a galvanizer within the Congress Party. After his release, he founded a union of railway workers with some 1,000,000 members, and also headed the postal workers...
...trade-union work, Narayan observed with sorrow how the Communists bored from within, how they ditched the Socialists when the party line changed. Young zealots reproached him for turning toward religion, away from Marxism. Narayan answered: "I was once a Communist. I have watched the Soviet experiment with anguish. If you want to establish a totalitarian state in the name of Socialism, you might do so. But I will not be a party...