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Deep Discontent. The impact of steadily soaring prices of rice and grain, India's staples, as well as those of vegetables, eggs and cooking oil, is felt hardest by the urban dwellers, who make up 18% of the population. A man and his wife, both employees of the Kerala state government at a combined wage of $84 per month, well above India's average, these days are forced to halve the family's milk consumption, cut out eggs entirely, and stretch the supply of rice by eating it in the form of soupy gruel. A Calcutta schoolteacher...
Though markedly willing to defend Russia internationally, she is an anti-Communist at home; it was at her insistence in 1959 that the government finally voted to dissolve the legally elected Communist government that had ruled Kerala state for 27 months. Her temper and her use of Nehru's magical name sometimes get her into trouble. On the hustings during by-election campaigns last summer, she threw temper tantrums when critical crowds heckled her, threatened on one occasion to report the "barbarians" to Daddy...
...Justifying emergency rule when subversion threatens to overthrow a regime. A similar clause was used by Jawaharlal Nehru to impose President's Rule from Delhi on the state of Kerala after it voted Communist in 1957. - And her body, well embalmed, was kept in a hushed room in the C.G.T. Building. After Per&243;n fell, it disappeared. *First stop on a long trail leading to Madrid. Other stops: Paraguay, Panama, followed by residences in lands then ruled by fellow dictators -Perez Jimenez' Venezuela, Trujillo's Dominican Republic, Franco's Spain...
...Marx than of Gandhi, more of the Bloomsbury agnostic than the Hindu,† more 19th century radicalism than 20th century reality, all held together by arrogance. His feelings toward colonialism can be traced partly to his birthplace, the town of Calicut on the Malabar coast (now the state of Kerala). "I was born where Vasco da Gama made the first landing by a European in India," Menon says. But he is reluctant to talk about his youth. "I have no past, have no journals or diaries. When I die, I want to leave nothing behind." Son of a lawyer...
...Communist state in India, Kerala, has ceased to be Communist...