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VIDEO INTRODUCTION:
People in October 1965. India was facing a crisis.
We had just fought a war with Pakistan, and the Prime Minister of India made a request to the nation that no Prime Minister should ever have to make.
Lal Bahadur Shastri asked every Indian to give up one meal a week. His exact words were "Sacrifice one meal at least a week!"
Why??
Because India simply did not have enough food. By 1966, an average of three American ships a day were docking at Indian ports with grain, and Economists called India a "ship-to-mouth" economy.
61 years later, Dr Jaishankar is warning us about a major food crisis!!
Now, the moment this clip went viral, a lot of people thought India is going to run out of food?
But you know what?? India today is sitting on so much rice that a Chief Minister is begging the Centre to take it away because there's no space left to store it.
So the question is, how can a country drowning in grain be staring at a food crisis?
Well, Jaishankar’s warning does not start in a godown. It starts in a 45 kilo bag, on a ship and in a 39 kilometre wide strip of water between Iran and Oman.
And at the very end of this video, I'll tell you about one sentence uttered by Indira Gandhi in 1966, after a phone call with the President of the United States. That one sentence tells you the future of India!!
So in this video, let's answer three questions:
What exactly did Dr Jaishankar say, and why is a foreign minister talking about food?
How will the Indian economy be affected due to the 4F problem?
And is India actually heading into a food crisis?
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✅Study Materials:
https://tci.cornell.edu/?blog=india-is-spending-less-on-food-the-food-its-buying-should-worry-us
https://economictimes.com/epaper/delhicapital/2026/oct/02/et-markets/e-for-exit-f-for-fpisforeign-outflow-tops-3-lakh-crore/articleshow/134627227.cms
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/economy/indicators/indias-forex-reserves-fall-18-34-billion-to-747-56-billion-in-week-ended-september-25/articleshow/134641536.cms
https://ground.news/article/farmers-crowd-at-kotputli-shopping-center-long-lines-forming-since-4-am-farmers-upset
https://www.business-standard.com/amp/industry/agriculture/diammonium-phosphate-stockpile-healthy-ahead-of-rabi-sowing-season-126100400388_1.html
https://www.pib.gov.in/PressReleasePage.aspx?PRID=2244395®=48&lang=2
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