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India's nutritionists have always found it far easier to develop protein supplements than to get Indians to eat them. The high-protein gruel, Balahar ("nutritious child's food" in Hindi), concocted of wheat, peanuts and powdered milk, has been widely distributed in drought-stricken Bihar and eastern Uttar Pradesh states. But mothers often withhold the protein-rich lentil dal from their babies because they believe it upsets young stomachs...
...have lived in India 55 years in both Uttar Pradesh and Bihar, where famine is threatening so severely. TIME's photographs are not only true but restrained. Miss Franklin writes that she admired what she considered the "grace and dignity" with which poor Indians endured their lot. Those who have lived among them call it apathy, a surrender, a giving up: they have faced starvation and privation too long...
...Jagjivan Ram, 58, the leader of India's 65 million "untouch ables," who, as the country's poorest caste, have been hit hardest by the food shortages. Ram's first project: to bore deep wells in such drought-stricken areas as his home state of Bihar to provide needed water for crop irrigation. He faces a terrifying task: keeping India's 500 million people from slipping into starvation if this year's crops fall below expectations-as they well may. -1ndia could go a long way toward closing its $1 billion a year trade...
...convinced that it has regained even a part of its idealism of yester-years. Secondly, it is extremely doubtful whether the parties or coalition of parties which have taken over power in some of the states will be able to do any better than Congress. In West Bengal and Bihar the parties constituting the coalitions make strange bed-fellows and it will be a miracle if they are able to effect harmonious execution of their agreed upon programs. Even if they do, the situation in India is not likely to improve radically within their tenure. It has arisen...
...seats in New Delhi's municipal body and claimed 6 out of the 7 parliamentary seats from New Delhi area. Though it could not topple the Congress Government in Madhya Pradesh, it made sizeable inroads into its majority. It also increased its representation in the Uttar Pradesh and Bihar...