भारतीय इतिहास के ६ स्वर्णिम पृष्ठ (वीर सावरकर - विदेशी आक्रान्ताओं पर विजय गाथा)

Miscellaneous Statements and Writings The Nepal Movement (1925 A.D.) Our doubts are traitors. And make us lose the good we oft might win. By fearing to attempt. —Shakespeare It is very gratifying to note that the Nepal movement has recorded a satisfactory progress during the last year. A couple of years ago, Hindusthan as a whole and even the leaders of Hindu thought in general, were totally unconscious of the far-reaching influence, which the movement is likely to exercise, if well and ably handled, on the future of the Sanghatan movement. The Hindu press was too busy in writing columns after columns about the duty of Hindus owed to the Khalifa in Turkey or the famine-stricken poor folk in Constantinople. The Hindu public was too much moved at the news that certain mosques in Syria had fallen in a dilapidated condition and was busy gathering funds with M. Shaukat Ali to rebuild it and the Hindu leaders led by the ablest of them, Mahatma Gandhi, who always knows how to lead and who never knows where to lead, were straining every fibre of their pinny hands to prop up the Khalifa on the throne of Turkey, whom his own people wanted to get rid of and were too much occupied in their efforts to save Mesopotamia and Arabia and Egypt and Syria and, in fact, all the great world but Hindusthan—to care how Nepal, that only independent Hindu Kingdom fared. When the independence of Afghanistan was formally recognised by the British nation, there passed a wave of enthusiasm over the Hindu press and the Hindu platform and thousands of Hindus took part in the anniversary celebrations in memory of that event. But for months, the formal recognition by the British nation of the independence of the Hindu Kingdom of Nepal remained entirely unnoticed by the Hindu press. Even the news did not appear in the majority of the Hindu papers. The Anglo-Indian papers knew what the recognition meant and noticed it with few suggestive remarks. A khadi shop opened somewhere in the village in Assam, used to receive more prominence in the great Hindu dailies and weeklies in Bombay, Madras, Calcutta and Lahore than the terms of this important treaty, that was signed between Britain and Nepal, did. We are not exaggerating; matters stood exactly like that. Nay, even today, a section of the Hindu press is groping as