The budget is not merely a statement of income and expenditure. It signifies much more.

A Parliament and State Assemblies elected based on the adult franchise selected as the organs of the people’s will.

A Parliament and State Assemblies elected based on the adult franchise selected as the organs of the people’s will.

By the end of 1951, it was decided to hold a general election based on an adult franchise, which produced an electorate of 190 million.

Particular attention should be paid to removing or at least mitigating the cynicism and frustration of the individual voter.

Neither militarily, ideologically, nor morally can one part of humanity afford to write off any other.

When we speak of rights being inalienable, it is society and its institutions that are responsible for ensuring the exercise of these rights and seeing that all can enjoy these rights.

Planning requires priorities to be prescribed as much in the rural sector as in the industrial sector.

If everybody began to think freely–and that is the meaning of freedom, ultimately–we shall get something done.

Abala Bose made remarkable contributions as an educationist, suffragist and philanthropist in early 20th-century Bengal.