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Shantaram The Carbohydrates  in Indian vegetarian diet mainly come from Rice and Wheat which are high glycemic foods. If one can completely substitute these grains with Barley, and add Foxtail Millet to the diet the results can be amazing. Generous addition of moong dal, channa dal, kabuli channa, urad dal along with green vegetables excepting potatoes, and some yams can give the variety and remove the boredom of eating. Roti made with equal quantities of flours of Barley, Gram and Foxtail millet has a reasonably low glycemic index of 34.  The name of Foxtail millet in various languages : Foxtail Millet's names in other languages.aw awa (~, Japanese), boermanna (Boer's manna, Afrikaans, South Africa), Borstenhirse (bristle grass, German), bottle-grass, dari (Turkey), durra (from Arabic durah, durrah), dukhn (Arabic), faang haang maa (dog tail straw, Thailand), fox-tail [German, Hungarian, Italian, Russian] millet, giers (Afrikaans, South Africa), fox-tail [Italian] bristle-grass, gal (Persian), kangni [kdngu, kakun] (Hindi, from kungt~ [kangu], Sanskrit), kaguno (Nepali), khaao faang (white straw, Thailand), khre (Tibetan, Nepal), lebelebele (Sotho, South Africa; see also Sorghum), milho-pain9o (millet-panicum, Portuguese), millet d'Italie [de oiseaux] (Italian [bird] millet, France), pigeon-grass, riz allemand (German rice, France), rdkafarkdt kOles (fox-tail millet, Hungarian; muhar in old stories), rumput ekur kuching (cat's tail grass, Malay Peninsula), s~koi (Malay Peninsula), su (~; also chi ,~; shu, ~,; liang, ~ grain, food; and siao mi, JJ~)~, little seed), tana-htil (tana, grass, hal, rice, Sinhalese, Sri Lanka), ten-nai [thina, thinai] (small grass, Tamil, India, Sri Lanka)  In telugu it is " korralu" and in Kannada it is Navane. Hope this is helpful. Gopalen