The Lotus Blossom

When a severe famine struck India due to a rice crop failure, the United States sent aid to the country. India could not repay its debts except in rupees. The United States had hundreds of millions of rupees that could only accepted in India, one of the poorest countries on the face of the earth. Senator Fulbright came up with the solution. The United States would send teachers to India to study and spend those rupees there. History teacher Richard Farrell took his wife Louise and their daughter Kitty to India to study, travel to learn about one of the oldest cultures on earth. Now they are ready to come home.