Articles: Hunger and Starvation

This section contains articles of a general nature on the right to food and related issues. Articles on specific issues - such as mid-day meals or the employment guarantee act - will be found in the relevant subsections.

• 2012
  • Counting Undernourished Children (Brinda Viswanathan, Economic and Political Weekly, Volume 47, Issue 20, 19 May 2012)
  • Starving in India - A six part series (Ashwin Parulkar, The Wall Street Journal)
    1. The Forgotten Problem
    2. A Fight for Life in Bihar
    3. Surviving on Toxic Roots
    4. It Isn't All About Food
    5. A Scribe Tries to Save a Life
    6. Legislating Food Security
  • Rural health, malnutrition get attention (Snal Matharu, Down to Earth, 16 March 2012)
  • Did they die of hunger? The question haunts Barak Valley (Ratnadip Choudhury, Tehelka, 20 Feb 2012)
  • A richer India sees national shame (Express India, 17 February 2012)
• 2010

• Hunger alarm (T.K. Rajalakshmi, Frontline, Volume 27, Issue 24, Nov 20 - Dec 3, 2010)
• Invisible Cities: Part Two: Hunger (Javed Iqbal, The New Indian Express, 14 November 2010)
• Internally Displaced Hunger (Javed Iqbal, The New Indian Express, 14 November 2010)
• Now, the bad news (Samar Halarnkar, Hindustan Times, 13 October 2010)
• Hunger haunts India (Hindustan Times, 11 October 2010)
• 'Her cry turned to whimper' (Hindustan Times, 5 October 2010)
• Start a hungama (Hindustan Times, 22 August 2010)
• In Mumbai's party land, malnourished toddler dies (Neha Bhayana, Hindustan Times, 22 April 2010)
• Where there is a will... (Manoj Kumar, Hindustan Times, 6 April 2010)
• Feeling sated? (Harsh Mander, 5 April 2010)
• The hungry republic (Samar Halarnkar, Hindustan Times, 24 March 2010)
• Tragedy of the absurd (Hindustan Times, 1 March 2010)

Last updated: 15 May 2012