From The Hindu Archives, January 30, 1926: Poverty problem.

Captain J. W. Petavel’s third of the series of University Special lectures on Poverty Problems was delivered last evening in the Senate Room. It was listened to with deep interest by an appreciative audience.

He gave a short resume of his first two lectures and said that to use the enormous productive power of labour for the good of the people in general, an entirely different social construction was needed. Through simplification of methods they could organise the young to use that power for the good of themselves, their parents and the community, without interfering with capitalism, which cared only for production and not for the individual. The new organisation should be one where everybody who wanted work would be given work and would get the necessaries of life.