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This week Indira will first travel to Allahabad, where the ashes of Lal Bahadur Shastri will be strewn on the mingling waters of the Ganges...
...Before Indira can think about elections, she must deal with a set of dizzying problems that are as big and complex as India itself. The most pressing is food. The worst drought of this century has decimated India's grain harvests. Present estimates place the 1965 crop at less than 75 million tons, a full 13 million tons below the 1964 level...
Shastri sent Food Minister Chidambaram Subramaniam to Washington to discuss emergency help and got a quick assurance of extra consignments. U.S. experts were in India last week, investigating how the limited port facilities could handle the added cargoes. But the long-term agreement will probably remain one of Indira's most urgent missions...
Kicking Out Communists. Whatever Indira's earlier predilections toward Communism may have been, her actions are apt to be tempered by recent experience. In the mid-1950s, Indira often returned from trips behind the Iron or Bamboo Curtain, bubbling about the beauties of Communism, but she turned out to be a tough, uncompromising anti-Communist when she ran up against Red subversion in India. A case in point was the poverty-stricken state of Kerala in India's arid southwest. The Communists had won elections for state officers and had been in power for 27 months when Indira popped...
...Indira is also likely to temper her policies to fit the thoughts of the three men she seems to trust most. They are Food Minister Subramaniam, Defense Minister Chaven and Economist Asoka Mehta. Like her, they are all Socialists, but in 18 years of experience, they have seen that socialism is not always a cure, and is sometimes a curse for India's problems. By inclination, Indira prefers public ownership of plants, but her chief economic adviser, Asoka Mehta, is fully aware that government-owned factories have proved to be far less efficient than private enterprise in India. Indira...