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...nutritionists have always found it far easier to develop protein supplements than to get Indians to eat them. The high-protein gruel, Balahar ("nutritious child's food" in Hindi), concocted of wheat, peanuts and powdered milk, has been widely distributed in drought-stricken Bihar and eastern Uttar Pradesh states. But mothers often withhold the protein-rich lentil dal from their babies because they believe it upsets young stomachs...
...Finance Minister Morarji Desai, has chosen to remain outwardly loyal to her. But on the state level, the opposition has had much better success. It has won control of nine of the 17 Indian states as a result of defections from the Congress Party and alliances among themselves. In Uttar Pradesh, India's most populous state, the Congress government was toppled last month when a minister and 17 other Congress leaders walked out on the party...
...have lived in India 55 years in both Uttar Pradesh and Bihar, where famine is threatening so severely. TIME's photographs are not only true but restrained. Miss Franklin writes that she admired what she considered the "grace and dignity" with which poor Indians endured their lot. Those who have lived among them call it apathy, a surrender, a giving up: they have faced starvation and privation too long...
...main issue that swept the Dravida Munnetra Khazagam to power was fear of the imposition of Hindi as the sole official language of India. In Punjab, the fall in Congress stock was largely due to squabbles attending the partition of the state of Punjab into Punjab and Hariana. In Uttar Pradesh and Delhi, the Jan Sangh certainly gathered a large number of votes through its agitation against cow slaughter...
...secured a majority of seats in New Delhi's municipal body and claimed 6 out of the 7 parliamentary seats from New Delhi area. Though it could not topple the Congress Government in Madhya Pradesh, it made sizeable inroads into its majority. It also increased its representation in the Uttar Pradesh and Bihar...