India in the Balance

In all the course of my public career I have never, till now, touched politics. Rather have I purposely avoided them as forming a topic apart, with a tendency to create false perspectives when applied to matters outside its own particular, and somewhat narrow, sphere. For the last ten years, since relinquishing my practice at the Bar, I have devoted my whole time to religion, which, of all subjects, has been generally considered that most distinctly set apart from politics. Yet the war, in its course of destruction, has not spared even this intangible barrier, and to-day the line of demarcation between religion and politics is lost.