Capt.Popeye
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That was a tough decade for India.
3 wars.
As a nation we lost Tibet but avenged '47.
And recovered economically only 20 years later.
Things could so easily have gone so very wrong .....
Oh yes; it certainly was..... Droughts, Huge Crop Failures, Economic doldrums... you name it ... it happened.
Remember PL-480 shipments of wheat from USA ? Most of it was something called "Bulgar Wheat" which was usually fed to live-stock and which happened to be in surplus then. That was India could afford to pay for, and thus got.
But we kept the faith and soldiered on.... without resorting to "quick-fixes" like giving power to Dictators or Gernails, though even those temptations some-times surfaced. But the "good ol' Gaon Bhau in the Pagdi" came through it all.... still a long way to go.... but he will make it through.