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...inventors of the Jaipur foot seem a mismatched pair. Dr. Pramod Karan Sethi, 70, an orthopedic surgeon, is a fellow of Britain's Royal College of Surgeons, while his collaborator, an artisan named Ram Chandra, reached only the fourth grade in Jaipur. Their paths first crossed more than 30 years ago at the Sawai Man Singh Hospital in Jaipur. There, Sethi was helping his orthopedic patients wobble down the corridor on their crutches, and Chandra was teaching lepers to make handicrafts...
...quarter of a century ago, an Indian government agronomist named Daulat R. Sethi set out to lick kans, found a way by cutting its roots a foot or so beneath the surface. At the time, India had no tools tough enough for such a job. Then came World War II and with it an army of snorting U.S. tractors to build the Burma Road. When the war was over, Sethi persuaded his government to buy 200 of the tractors, teamed up with a U.S. engineer to found the Central Tractor Organization...
Last year Sethi's big offensive cleared 80,000 acres of kans. By last week, with the monsoon rains expected, Sethi's tractors had rumbled to a stop for a well-earned rest. Their labors this year had freed close to 300,000 acres of wheatfields from kans, reclaimed another 30,000 acres from the jungle. The extra food they had produced in five months alone was estimated at 100,000 tons, a great victory for India, and for Western machines...