HYDERABAD DIARIES

himself was fluent in Urdu. This conversation led me to conclude that a major cause of inefficiency in today’s administration is the everincreasing disassociation of modern employees from the moral and spiritual values of the past. The only way of curing today’s workers of their sluggish inefficiency is to re-inculcate the religious and spiritual values which were formerly enshrined in the time-honoured traditions. There appears to be no other solution to this problem. Another noteworthy fact which emerged from our conversation was excellence of Hindu-Muslim relations before the Partition. This relationship was so good that Hindus learnt Arabic and Persian, and even memorized verses from the Quran. It is true that there was occasional friction between the two communities, giving rise to untoward incidents, but such things happened no oftener than in any other composite society during any period in world history. Mostly there were incidents affecting individuals at a purely personal level, they should have been kept at that level—not blown up out of all proportion to the communal or national level as they were by ill-advised leaders. This is what destroyed the mutual trust between the two communities and set up barriers between them. o CPS Women's Group New Delhi Official Number +91 9910288870