Word: kisan
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...exposes the fallacy of the claim that everyone can be rich and successful provided they work hard. He points to the millions who work themselves to the bone and still remain hungry. He preaches the gospel of leveling down, of emulating the kisan (peasant), not the zamindar (landlord), for "all can be kisans, but only a few zamindars...
Prime Minister Lai Bahadur Shastri's miss-a-meal campaign is one part of an official food-conservation program. Another was an appeal to farmers to grow two crops a year instead of only one-or three instead of two. In his speeches, Shastri often cries Jai Kisan! (Hail Farmer!) giving farmers equal billing with the soldiers on the Pakistan battlelines in the fight to save India. Shastri has also asked city dwellers to raise whatever food they can. "A well-kept garden should be a matter of pride to every household," he says. Obeying his own advice...
...Kisan. Nehru agreed to stay on, and apparently can hold the job as long as he wants it. Nehru keeps in trim physically through a half-hour of yoga exercises each morning, including a spell of standing on his head. Whenever he feels drained intellectually, one unfailing source of energy remains to him-the Indian people. Nehru's long romance with the millions on millions of kisans, or peasants, began when he was 31. Brahman-born and British-bred, Nehru had returned home to provincial Allahabad with his sense of innate superiority re-enforced by seven years of upper...
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