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A biography of the Indian ascetic Vinoba Bhave is presented. He was a disciple of the Indian peace activist Mahatma Gandhi and is known as one of the most learned men in India. He has studied languages including Sanskrit, Persian, Urdu, Hindi, Malayalam and English. He is also popular for his land distribution campaign, wherein he walks to various Indian villages to ask those who have land to share it with those who have none. The largest single gift he is described to have facilitated was a parcel of 100,000 acres from a maharajah.

The article reports on the murderous encounter between the Indian border police and the Red Chinese troops on October 1959 in the Ladakh province in India. It mentions that only five Indians escaped, nine were killed and ten were wounded by the Red Chinese troops in the ambush. It notes that the people in India felt angry and alone and that the cruelty of the behaviour of Red China made a part of some cherished convictions.

The article focuses on the professional life and works of Indian politician Indira Gandhi. It discusses how Gandhi, the member of New Congress Party was defeated in majority voting and was compelled to form a coalited government with the Communist Party and other small parities of India. It mentions that Gandhi has worked to abolish the right to private property, to control the unemployment rate by educating younger generation and controlling population.

The article presents information on the political developments in India. Serious and informed English opinion needs to take into account the one patent fact that in India it is Mahatma Gandhi who counts and the rest are nowhere. Mahatma Gandhi became, by an act of religious poverty, a peasant. It is this direct touch with the common folk which has made these national movements in India so strong and active. There is no other force in India remotely to compare with that of Mahatma Gandhi. His least word sways the hearts of Mohammedan's as well as Hindus.

Discusses the fundamental issue of poverty in India. Lack of literacy and organization of the country's labor force, leading to poverty; Rejection of a plea from a group of Labor members of Parliament to release politicians Mahatma Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru, and Abul Kalam Azad, by L.S. Amery, Secretary of State for India; Growth and influence of the Moslem League and the Hindu Mahasabha in the country.

The article discusses problems faced by farmers, especially in Asia and Africa. In Asia and Africa the percentage of farmers is between 60 and 70. Most farmers are extremely poor and show all the usual symptoms of poverty. The first reason why farmers are poor is that yields are low and the second is that each farmer has too little land. For every person engaged in agriculture in the U.S. there are about thirty acres of land under cultivation but in India the area of agricultural land per farmer is about three acres. Increasing the amount of land per farmer lightens the farmers' poverty. One way to do this is to increase the total area under cultivation.

This article presents information on the Indian social reformer Vinoba Bhave. The poverty of India seems to make this country a natural breeding ground for communism. But this is an ancient nation with its own traditions and culture. Mahatma Gandhi showed how typically Indian methods could be used in the struggle for India's independence. And now Vinoba Bhave, Gandhi's spiritual heir, is trying to use the spiritual traditions of India in the even more difficult struggle against poverty. Bhave is the strongest antidote to communism in India today.

Looks at the crises facing India. Efforts of Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri to halt the country's disintegration; Prevalence of poverty in the country; Problem with the diverse ethnic composition of the country's population; Amount of aid given by the U.S. to India to help alleviate the problems afflicting her; Description of the social and economic conditions in the country.

The Indian people have been stirred as seldom before by the tragedy of the earthquake in Bihar and Nepal. For the relief of the sufferers from the earthquake the poorest, in spite of their dire poverty, and the lower middle class, which has suffered so much from the trade depression and unemployment, have given generously, perhaps more generously than the rich and the well-to-do. The people have stood up bravely to face the unthinking cruelty of nature and have tried to fight it and lessen its tragic effects. Nature is often pitiless and cruel. Despite feeling helpless they bow to it, or combat it and try to control it, according to temperaments and the measure of strength and will within. But there are other earthquakes which are not caused by unthinking nature but by thinking man.

This article reports on an Indian state visit made by Chinese Premier Chou En-lai in 1954. Chou was greet by thousands of people when he arrived at the Palam airport in New Delhi. Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru welcomed his Chinese counterpart with a garland of flowers and a guard of honor. The two leaders discussed a peace plan for Asia and problems facing both countries, such as poverty and overpopulation.

Of all Indian problems that of its poverty is the most vital. India's hope for self-government, her ambition to develop a popular electorate, her desire for future development of the country is all affected by this problem. The fundamental cause of the present unrest will probably be found to be in the misery of the masses. Agriculture forms the predominant occupation. In many parts of India the cultivators obtain employment only for six or eight months in the year. Whether there is a good or bad monsoon tens of millions are doomed to poverty. The amount of rainfall decides only the degree of poverty for the coming year.

The article reports on the India-Pakistan conflict of 1971 that started on the pretext of oppression on Bengalis by Pakistani armies. As stated, both India and Pakistan massed troops on their borders that could engulf the subcontinent all-out war where millions of people died. It also reports that the Indian-Soviet friendship treaty of early August 1971 prevents India from waging war without consulting the Soviets. Whereas, it mentions about the rise of discontent political and economic pressures within West Pakistan during and after war that restrained Islamabad President Agha Mohammed Yahya Khan and his military regime. It discusses the dismal situation of war affected people who struggled from hunger, poverty, and natural calamity.

Focuses on negotiations for a truce between Hindu nationalist leader and social reformer Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi and Lord Irwin; Description of the terms of the formal treaty which provide for a comprehensive amnesty; Details of the treaty which won Gandhi a tardy recognition of the justice of his complaints against the salt monopoly and permission to continue his boycott of foreign cloth; Use of principle of non-violence by him as a method of overcoming one's enemy by love; Information on the second Round Table Conference in which he will seek to lighten the burdens and lessen the restrictions which the London draft imposed; View that the prime cause of Indian poverty is the burden of foreign rule.

Comments on the condition of agriculture in Madras, which has led to successful Communist revolutions in other lands. Impact of agrarian poverty and lack of land on the poor distribution of land and irrigation works; Rate of per-capita real national income; Percentage of agricultural population who owned the land.

The article focuses on the book "Beyond the High Himalayas," by William O. Douglas. With greater tact he staggered into Leh. Douglas went because his love of mountains took him to the grandest mountains in the world. He flew through a fearsome range in Pakistan where every flight is an experimental journey. Douglas writes with boyish enthusiasm and light hearted humor. But he records unhappily the poverty of Central Asia. He notes that the richest man in Upshi earns $10 a year. the Soviet empire. He wants an American program geared to skills of the people, administered at the village not the government level and expressive of American ideals.

China for a century and a half has made a gallant fight against opium. She fought two wars to keep out opium from British India. She lost both times, and paid high penalties for her protests. She had to pay indemnities. What was worse, she was forced to open treaty ports which later became the foreign concessions. Into these treaty ports Indian opium flowed by the ton, and the Chinese, bound by the treaties of two unsuccessful wars, could only stand by helpless. Next, China, determined that all her money should not be drained away in the purchase of foreign opium began poppy cultivation herself on a gigantic scale. This meant a double quantity-an immense supply. Things went from bad to worse; China became a nation of addicts, with the consequent poverty and demoralization.

The article focuses on the political attitude of fascist Indian leader Subhas Chandra Bose. Bose has a favorable inkling to fascism and its use of force to solve social problems. He believed that human sacrifices have to be made to liberate India from Great Britain, which he claimed as the reason behind the poverty and famine. Like other fascists, he used hate propaganda to convince Indians to resist not only against the British but also the government.

Highlights the World Conference on Hunger at the building, Palazzo dei congress in Italy. Description about the architecture and historic information related to the building; Arrangement of delegates by countries; Inflation rate in Rome; Economic condition in India; Social condition of the people in the U.S.; Factors that contribute to hunger and poverty; Issues regarding the distribution of food; Need for money to develop sustainable farming.

Information on the 13th annual meeting of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (World Bank) and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) held at House of Science in Delhi, India is presented. Topics include poverty problems, the possible creation of an International Development Association (IDA), and the contributions to the IMF and World Bank. The meeting featured notable persons including U.S. Treasury Secretary Robert Anderson and India's Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru.

The article comments on issues on ethics and humanity relevant to poverty citing the experiences of wealth and excess of money in Monaco, and the scarcity of money and poverty in India. Apparently, a news article published in "Time" depicts how three Saudi Arabian princes are suffering from an excess of riches that they spend too much money on gambling, while a story published in the Washington "Post" tells about thousands of people who are suffering from scarcity in India.

Discusses the condition of dedicated individuals and organizations engaged in anti-Communist activities. Report that they were hampered and often paralyzed by rockbottom poverty; Limitation of their political effectiveness due to lack of funds; Visit of the author to offices in Hong Kong and Saigon, which gather, analyze and publish materials exposing conditions in Red China and Communist infiltrations locally; Information that Indians hesitate to compromise their "neutralist" status by giving work or ads to an intellectual under constant Communist attack; Focus on two political weeklies, "Current" and "Blitz" published in Bombay, India; Need of an American organization to provide help for small but significant local efforts.

Deals with the arguments raised by John Cowles, publisher of "Minneapolis Tribune," regarding foreign policies in Asian countries as of February 1956. Success of the Soviet Union in abolishing poverty in Asia; Provision of credit by the U.S. to India; Role of the U.S. in preventing Burma in becoming a communist nation.