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The Godden sisters are now successful British novelists, and when Rumer (Black Narcissus, The River) and Jon (The Seven Islands, The Peacock) use India as a locale, reality still does not impinge on the writing. Seen through their eyes, the vast Asian subcontinent becomes a setting instead of a place...
Jet-Borne Virus. The problem may be more difficult than the finances suggest. The world's greatest smallpox reservoir is the Indian subcontinent. In the 1950-51 winter epidemic season, the Republic of India recorded 225,000 cases and 57,000 deaths. By herculean efforts involving 420 million vaccinations...
Since their country achieved independence 19 years ago, however, Indian businessmen have been emerging on their own. And to an ever increasing degree, the subcontinent is becoming dominated by a group of young Indian executives who were schoolboys when the Empire crumbled.
The visit was not a big success. India's plan was to discuss the resumption of trade and tourist travel-anything, that is, except the issue that started the war in the first place: Kashmir. Pakistan wanted to talk about self-determination for Kashmir first and everything else afterwards...
To solve its food problem, India needs both birth control and a massive agricultural program to double its per-acre grain yields. The cost of such an achievement, according to Dr. Roger Revelle, director of Harvard University's Center for Population Studies, would be an enormous $20 billion, much...