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...government has persuaded only a few to band together in cooperatives. For an Indian feels deeply attached to his own land and hates the idea of working on someone else's; nor does he like to trust anyone else to do his buying and selling for him. Punjabi Farmer Parbhu Dayal, 62, observed last week: "If the cooperative's tractor goes out of order, those who run the cooperative send it off to Delhi for repairs, and if the repairs cost 30 or 40 rupees, they mark it as 200 rupees in the accounts and pocket the difference...
...government educational work, religious and social resistance to rural advance has been reduced. Though Parbhu Dayal, for example, is a good Brahman who would never knowingly take the life of any animal, he welcomes government agents who arrive to poison rats and to spray insecticides in his fields. Another Punjabi farmer, Kartar Singh, 26, grudgingly admitted that his brother from New Delhi had added 20% to last year's wheat harvest by spreading rat poison around the farm during one of his visits...
...million people. India's population, second only to Red China's, is greater than all of South America, Africa and Australia put together. Indians speak more than 700 languages or dialects and belong to at least seven distinct racial types, from the tall, leathery, light-eyed Punjabi of the north to the frail, black-skinned Tamil of the south. Most of India's millions are underfed, badly housed and racked by disease. The average life expectancy of an Indian at birth is 32 years and five months. Hundreds of thousands are homeless, and live, make love, sleep...
...Singapore last week, just before sailing for Australia, where he plans to study agriculture at Queensland University, Eric Mellor donned shorts, turban and sword and entered the temple to take five sips of holy water and repeat five times in Punjabi, "The victory is of God.'' The Granth Sahib was opened at random; the first letter on the page was H, and Mellor was asked to choose a Punjabi name with this initial. His choice: Harbans, meaning "a member of God's family...
Furthermore, Good Will Ambassador Saund wove many a pungent political thread into his tapestry. Recalling an old Punjabi proverb, "Torn clothes should be stitched in time," he declared it is "inconceivable that two great democracies of the world-India and America-cannot understand each other while their objective is the same." The U.S. attitude on India's troubles with Pakistan, said Saund firmly, arises out of a realization of Russia's domination in Eastern Europe: "Aid to Pakistan was only part of an overall military strategy-against international Communism-given after carefully weighing all the facts of life...