How many can claim with convic­tion and without being challenged, that they have truly ‘lived’? Late Mr. Mehar Chand Mahajan is per­haps one of the very few of whom it can be said that he had ‘truely lived.’ Looked at from any angle his eminently commendable con­tributions to national affairs – as an educationist, as a social reformer, as an Arya Samajist, as an Indian and, foremost of all, as a man – are worth saluting. One does not often come across such a fine combination of head and heart, justice and mercy, nobility and modesty, fearlessness and wisdom, a disciplinarian yet human