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...Parliament, outside the Prime Minister's job, and then come back. That is the problem before me, and it is not a question that can be solved by loud acclamation." He was hoping to leave in a fortnight with his daughter Indira for the cool, piny forests of Uttar Pradesh, there to sleep under the stars, ride ponies, climb mountains and go boating. He had served his country as leader for 10½ years, and felt "flat and stale...
...million-far short of enough to keep pace with India's 5,000,000 yearly births. Power and electricalequipment projects have been dropped. To save foreign exchange, the government has slapped strict import controls on luxury goods. Despite these measures, the huge Rihand hydroelectric dam in Uttar Pradesh stands useless for lack of $8,000,000 to buy electric generators...
...crops. Across northern India, in state after state, black headlines announced creeping famine. The famine areas were still scattered. But in Bihar, more than a million people were down to one meal every two days; farmers scrabbled in the fields for roots, and rioting workers broke into granaries. In Uttar Pradesh, desperate men held up a train; ignoring money and jewels, they carried off five bags of rice...
...actors on a great stage and all the world is watching," Jawaharlal Nehru, eager to get out the vote for India's second general election, kept telling his audiences. But there were obstacles. In Uttar Pradesh the citizens of 14 villages hidden away in the foothills of the Himalayas decided, after listening to candidates, that voting was "just not worth the long walk." In the thick jungles of Orissa, the prevalence of stampeding wild elephants kept all but the most venturesome of the electorate at home. And at least one Orissan who dutifully set out for the polls never...
...Lord Ramachandra, and I am here to create a new way of life." Police records bore no evidence of this one way or another, but they did show that up to three years ago, the self-appointed god of Mokhimpur had been a messenger boy in the Uttar Pradesh Department of Public Works who had been fired for misbehavior...