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Re:Poor in India Starve as Politicians Steal $14.5 Billion o... by pessimist on Wednesday August 29, 2012 @06:52AM (#4447920)
Perhaps, but I should note that India has historically suffered from highly inconsistent monsoons which have lead to famines, as recently as the 1960s. The failure of those monsoons lead to the creation of a PDS system.
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