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I SPEECHES OF PRESIDENT RAJENDRA PRASAD VOLUME THREE PUBLICATIONS DIVISION Ministry of Information & Broadcasting Government of India First Published: 1977 (Saka 1898) Reprint: 2007 (Saka 1929) Price: Rs. 335.00 ISBN: 81-230-1406-6 S&W-ENG-REP-095-2006-07 Published by Director, Publications Division, Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Government of India, Soochna Bhawan, C.G.O. Complex, Lodhi Road, New Delhi - 110003 http/www.publicationsdivision.nic.in Editing : Sapna N. Singh & Maneesh Singhal Cover Design : V. Pardeshi Sales Centres : • Delhi • Soochna Bhavan, CGO Complex, Lodhi Road, New Delhi-110003 • Hall No. 196, Old Secretariat, Delhi-110054 • Mumbai * 701, B - Wing, 7th Floor, Kendriya Sadan, Navi Mumbai - 400614 • Kolkata • 8, Esplanade East, Kolkata-700069 • Chennai • ‘A’ Wing, Rajaji Bhavan, Besant Nagar, Chennai-600090 • Thiruvananthapuram • Press Road, Near Govt. Press, Thiruvananthapuram-695 001 • Hyderabad • Block 4,1st Floor, Gruhakalpa Complex, M.G. Road, Nampally, Hyderabad-500001 • Bangalore • 1st Floor, ‘F* Wing, Kendriya Sadan, Koramangala, Bangalore-560034 • Patna • Bihar State Co-operative Bank Building, Ashoka Rajpath, Patna-800004 • Lucknow • Hall No. 1, 2nd Floor, Kendriya Bhawan, Sector 8, Aliganj, Lucknow 226024 • Ahmedabad • Ambica Complex, 1st Floor, Paldi, Ahmedabad-380007, •Guwahati • House No. 7, New Colony, Cheni Kuthi, K.K.B. Road, Guwahati - 781003 Typeset at Nautiyal Computers, G-ll Aruna Park, Shakarpur, Delhi-110 092 Printed at Ankur Offset & Packaging, A-54, Sector-63, Noida PREFACE This volume contains Dr. Rajendra Prasad’s speeches from November 1956 to May 1963, when he laid down the office of the President of India. The speeches have been arranged subjectwise. Their sweep is broad and they bring out the multichromatic personality of Dr. Prasad, highlighting various facets of his life—as a statesman, a scholar, a historian, an educationist, an idealist and a thinker, who never shied away from new ideas, though firmly holding to his cultural moorings. Education was Dr. Prasad’s forte and this explains why “education”, as one subject claims the largest number of speeches in this collection. In the various convocation addresses to Indian universities and educational institutions, he laid emphasis on the present-day requirements of the country and the people. He exhorted educationists and teachers alike to rise up to the new challenges thrown up by independence and thus refashion the educational system so that it produced not square pegs in round holes, but men and women who could give shape to the aspirations of the free people of India and help them realise the great destiny that was theirs. On whatever subject Dr. Prasad spoke, he injected into it a rare simplicity of approach, complete disuse of rhetoric and a fresh air of contemporaneity. All this goes to make his speeches a real treat, compelling sustained interest. Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2018 with funding from Public. Resource.Org https://archive.org/details/speechesofpresid03unse CONTENTS ADDRESSES TO PARLIAMENT A YEAR FULL OF ACHIEVEMENTS 1 MAINTAINING THE TEMPO OF DEVELOPMENT 7 FORGING AHEAD DESPITE STRESSES 13 FROM STRENGTH TO STRENGTH 19 A FRIEND BETRAYS 28 NEW PEAKS IN AGRICULTURE AND INDUSTRY 38 PLANNING WITH A BROAD PERSPECTIVE 44 TOWARDS A BALANCED ECONOMY 52 MESSAGES TO THE NATION IMPACT OF PLANNING ON NATION’S PROSPERITY 56 NEED FOR UNITY 58 IMPLEMENT PLAN WITH REDOUBLED EFFORT 62 MATCHING THOUGHTS WITH DEEDS 65 STRESSES OF PLANNED ECONOMY 67 MESSAGE OF HOPE AND PROGRESS 69 WARNING AGAINST INTERNAL FRICTION 71 BUILDING A BETTER INDIA 73 INDIA AND THE WORLD INDO-JAPAN RELATONS 76 MAHATMA’S TEACHINGS AND WORLD PROBLEMS 79 THE IMPORTANCE OF CULTURAL TIES 85 LET US STRIVE FOR SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC BETTERMENT 88 SATYA AND AHIMSA SHOULD GUIDE HUMAN RELATIONS 89 FREEDOM BRINGS NEW RESPONSIBILITIES 93 INDO-CAMBODIAN FRIENDSHIP 97 MATERIAL PROSPERITY AND SPIRITUAL VALUES IMPORTANT 99 QUEST FOR AN IDEAL HUMAN SOCIETY 101 THE CONCEPT OF POSITIVE PEACE 103 THE INTERNATIONAL BUDDHIST CENTRE 104 RECASTING THE EDUCATIONAL SYSTEMS 106 SYNTHESIS OF THE OLD AND THE NEW 110 ON HISTORICAL AND RELIGIOUS TIES 113 INDO-U.S. FRIENDSHIP 115 A FRIENDSHIP MEETING 117 UNIVERSITIES AND WORLD PEACE 119 AN ABIDING RELATIONSHIP 121 NATIONAL AFFAIRS ADVICE TO FUTURE ADMINISTRATORS 124 FREEDOM OF THE INDIVIDUAL 126 INDIAN LAW INSTITUTE 131 A UNIQUE INSTITUTION 134 ON INDEPENDENCE OF JUDICIARY 137 PROPAGATION OF HINDI 141 THE SPIRIT OF SERVICE 148 WINNING PEOPLE’S CONFIDENCE 150 NO CONFLICT AMONG INDIAN LANGUAGES 153 THE ROLE OF LAWYERS AND JUDGES 156 EMPHASIS ON INTERNAL DEVELOPMENT 160 NEED FOR A STRONG BAR 162 JUDICIARY : PROTECTOR OF OUR CONSTITUTION 165 UNITY : OUR HERITAGE AND IDEAL 167 CRITICISM COMPATIBLE WITH DEMOCRACY 169 NEED TO PRESERVE UNDERLYING UNITY OF INDIA 172 NO IMPOSITION OF HINDI 177 DUTY FIRST 183 POWERS AND FUNCTIONS OF THE PRESIDENT 186 SETTING AN EXAMPLE FOR OTHERS 189 EDUCATION AND CULTURE KURUKSHETRA : REMINDER OF A LOFTY TRADITION 192 SANSKRIT IN OUR NATIONAL LIFE 194 A UNIVERSITY COMPLETES HUNDRED YEARS 196 ANDHRA SAHITYA AKADEMY 201 UNIVERSITIES AND CHARACTER BUILDING 205 GIVING EDUCATION A BROADER BASIS 208 BHARATIYA VIDYA BHAVAN 211 FAITH AS BASIS OF PEACE 213 CONTINUITY IN INDIA’S HISTORY 217 ADVICE TO STUDENTS 220 KALIDASA 224 RAISING TEACHERS’ PAY AND STATUS 228 RABINDRA BHAVAN 230 FILMS AS MEANS OF EDUCATION 233 PUBLIC SCHOOLS 235 STUDENTS AND THEIR RESPONSIBILITIES 238 CATCHING UP WITH PROGRESS 239 IMPORTANCE OF EXTRA-CURRICULAR ACTIVITIES 243 THE ROOTS OF INDIAN UNITY 246 EDUCATION AND SOCIAL REFORMS 250