Word: chidambaram
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...shortages could hardly come at a worse time for India; the U.S. is now using its Public Law 480 "Food for Peace" as leverage to coax recipient nations toward wiser economic policies (see THE NATION). Though Indian Minister of Food Chidambaram Subramaniam desperately wants a new long-term U.S. commitment on grain shipments, Washington insists on delivering only on a month-by-month basis until India presents convincing proof that its next five-year plan will modernize its famine-prone farm system. And though Washington won't say so, it may well be that no long-term agreement...
...satellites sent their top men. Of the five sponsors of the 1955 Bandung Conference, only Sukarno was on hand as boss of a nation. Nasser dispatched a Vice President, Burma and Ceylon were represented only by their ambassadors, and from India came not Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri but Chidambaram Subramaniam, the Food Minister...
...Cabinet meeting, non-Hindi ministers backed the demand of Food Minister Chidambaram Subramaniam that English also be given statutory recognition as an official language. When they were voted down, Subramaniam and another minister resigned, shaking confidence in Shastri's leadership. As the death toll in the riots rose to 60, Shastri made a nationwide broadcast appealing for law and order. Though he did not promise to restore English to parity with Hindi, he did assure the nation that jobs and opportunities for advancement were in no way endangered by Hindi's becoming the official language...
...situated in the rural heart of Madras State, or Tamil Nad, South India. On its eastern boundry, lush green rice paddies cover the six miles between the University and the shores of the Bay of Bengal. On the west, the campus blends almost unnoticeably into the town of Chidambaram, a religious, as well as commercial and government center. Chidambaram's two famous Hindu temples dominate the landscape for miles around, visible proof of the University's ties with traditional South India...
...more today than you paid yesterday." Later, they pitched a tent on the sidewalk and started selling their own coffee at 25 paise a cup. Soon a Price Resistance Committee was organized to spread the boycott to other restaurants and shops. Among the joiners were Chidambaram Subramaniam, India's Food Minister, and Asoka Mehta, deputy chairman of India's Planning Commission...