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...course lies in chemical fertilizers. Since independence, the Indian government has built six chemical-fertilizer plants; to these is due much of the credit for the fact that per capita food production has actually gone up 15% in the last 15 years. This is not nearly enough, but under Pandit Nehru, India refused to allow foreign companies to "exploit" the country's potential market for fertilizer...
...ashes of Jawaharlal Nehru have long since disappeared into the silt of the Ganges, carrying with them the faint shadow of the rose he always wore in his lapel. Gone with the Pandit is the image of India as a moral bulwark of the "nonaligned" world, a pious mediator between the great powers. Gone with the jaunty jodhpurs and preachy pronouncements is the hope that India might soon be an economic success. Gone, too, are the pride and the confidence that inspired India in its formative years. India without Nehru stands dispirited and disillusioned, a land without elan where...
...been plagued by what Delhi euphemists call "fissiparous tendencies." Put more bluntly, many's the politician who lusts for Prime Minister Lai Bahadur Shastri's job. Among the splittists: left-leaning ex-Defense Minister Krishna Menon; sloe-eyed Indira Gandhi (Nehru's daughter), Mrs. Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit (Nehru's sister), and former Finance Minister Morarji Desai, 69, who was Shastri's chief rival for the prime ministry. Last week at Bangalore, Desai made his play...
...despite the district's poverty, many peasants do not want lower prices for the crops they sell to the cities. Besides, Madame Pandit fought a brilliant campaign. She curbed the arrogant Nehru temper, of which she has her full share, and conducted herself with a humility she had never displayed as India's aggressively "neutralist" ambassador to Washington and Moscow. On the hustings, she gestured toward her blue-rinsed grey hair, described herself as a daughter returning home in her old age, and asked plaintively: "If you fail to give me room, where can I go?" While...
Candidate Pandit won easily, 110,-548 to 52,528. It is expected she will soon join her niece and Nehru's daughter, Indira Gandhi, in the Cabinet of Prime Minister Lai Bahadur Shastri...