Right to Food Act: Articles

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• Food Security Bill: Simpler the Better (Editorials, Economic and Political Weekly, 24 December 2011)
• Hunger must go (Jean Dreze, Hindustan Times, 22 December 2011)
• Improve PDS, fight hunger (Shafeeq Rahman, Tehelka, 22 December 2011)
• Can we afford Rs 6 lakh cr Food Subsidy Bill in 3 years? (Ashok Gulati and Jyoti Gujral, The Economic Times, 17 December 2011)
• A collective liability (Harsh Mander, Hindustan Times, 28 November 2011)
• Food Security Bill: Is it well thought out? (Suman Sahai, Deccan Chronicle, 24 October 2011)
• Food for all? (Sebastian PT, Outlook Business, 12 Nov 2011)
• Food Bill must have strong safeguards for cash transfer: Jean Dreze (The Hindu, 2 October 2011)
• To the hungry, god is bread (M. S. Swaminathan, The Hindu, 1 October 2011) 
• The middle path on the food security bill? (Harsh Mander, Infochange Agriculture, 8 September 2011)
• Starving India may get the Bill but not the food (Apoorva Dutt, DNA, 4 September 2011)
• Right to Food, a critique of the draft food security bill, and a brief outline of what any such bill must, at the very least, incorporate (Commentary, Economic and Political Weekly, 13 August 2011)
• Lip Service to Food Security (Editorial, Economic and Political Weekly, 30 July 2011)
• Ending Indifference: A Law to Exile Hunger? (Harsh Mander, Economic and Political Weekly, June 18 2011, Volume 46 Issue 25)
• Impact of Biometric Identification-Based Transfers (Arka Roy Chaudhuri, E Somanathan, Economic and Political Weekly, 21 May 2011, Volume 46 Issue 21)
• Mending the Food Security Act (Jean Drèze, The Hindu, 24 May 2011)
• Why not a Universal Food Security Legislation (Himanshu and Abhijit Sen, Economic and Political Weekly, Volume 46, Issue 12)
• Make food security a right (Simi Chacko and Ria Singh Sawhney, The Hindu Magazine, 5 March 2011)
• Going against the grain (Reetika Khera, Hindustan Times, 26 January 2011)
• Where Are the Cereals? (Editorials, Economic and Political Weekly, Volume 46 Issue 4)
• A platter of blather (Pratap Bhanu Mehta, Indian Express, 21 January 2011)
• Don't water down food security (Bharat Ramaswami, Indian Express, 19 January 2011)
• A flawed approach to food security (Himanshu, Live Mint, 19 January 2011)
• A Notional Advisory Council? (Jean Drèze, The Hindu, 10 January 2011)
• Is the food security programme workable? (Biraj Patnaik, Business Standard, 3 November 2010)
• POSCO Deewane (Neelabh Mishra, Outlook, 8 November 2010)
• The Middle Class has lost track of how poor this country is (Jean Drèze, Tehelka, 6 November 2010)
• A Single Solution (The Hindu, 25 October 2010)
• Poor get less food from Sonia's NAC (The Times of India, 24 OCtober 2010)
• NAC urges cheap grain for 75% Population (Business Standard, 24 October 2010)
• Divided NAC finalises Food Security Draft (Chetan Chauhan, Hindustan Times, 24 October 2010)
• No Uniform Food Security, NAC readies Bill framework (Ravish Tiwari, Indian Express, 24 October 2010)
• NAC moots food net for 75% of population (Sreejiraj Eluvangal & Anil Sharma, Daily News and Analysis, 24 October 2010)
• Implement Food Security Scheme in two phases: NAC (Smita Gupta, Hindu, 24 October 2010)
• NAC-govt divide surfaces at think tank's meet (Nitin Sethi, The Times of India, 24 October 2010)
• NAC consensus on Food Security (Smita Gupta, Hindu, 24 October 2010)
• Inconsistencies in Food Safety Law (Samay, 23 October 2010)
• Food Security for 'almost' all (Vibha Sharma, The Tribune, 23 October 2010)
• NAC's compromise proposes wider food security coverage (Smita Gupta, Hindu, 23 October 2010)
• NAC wants subsidised food for 75 percent of Indians (Rupashree Nanda, IBN, 23 October 2010)
• Food Bill re-draft:Subsidies for 75 percent (NDTV, 23 October 2010)
• Jean Drèze's Dissent Note (Hindu, 22 October 2010)
• Losing their nerve? (Jean Drèze, Hindustan Times, 14 October 2010)
• Ministry rejects NAC's Food Security Proposal (Hindustan Times, 4 October 2010)
• Radical changes proposed to Food Security Bill
• NAC wants subsidised food for 75% Indians (M. Rajashekhar & Urmi A Goswami, Economic Times, 24 October 2010)
• How right you are, Dr. Singh (P. Sainath, Hindu, 14 September 2010)
• The early Kalidasa syndrome (Utsa Patnaik, Hindu, 13 September 2010)
• More food grains for poor at BPL rates (Gargi Parsai, Hindu, 2 September 2010)
• Food Security - by definition (P. Sainath, Hindu, 26 August 2010)
• Oliver Twist seeks food security (P. Sainath, Hindu, 11 August 2010)
• Hungry for more (Ritu Priya, Hindustan Times, 8 August 2010)
• Plan Panel to give food security cost proposals to EGoM (Chetan Chauhan, Hindustan Times, 22 April 2010)
• Work out a Bankable Plan (Devinder Sharma, Hindustan Times, 22 April 2010)
• PM seeks details of objections to food security Bill (Chetan Chauhan, Hindustan Times, 19 April 2010)
• 3-page note changed Govt tack on food bill (Samar Halarnkar, Hindustan Times, 7 April 2010)
• Will food bill help these children? (Kenneth John and Samar Halarnkar, Hindustan Times, 4 April 2010)
• Hard to Stomach (Biraj Patnaik, Hindustan Times, 4 April 2010)
• Govt to send food security bill back to rewrite desk (Zia Haq, Hindustan Times, 3 April 2010)
• Draft food bill belies lofty UPA promise (Anil Padmanabhan & Liz Mathew, Hindustan Times, 2 April 2010)
• Of Food Inflation, Farmer Interest and Policy Failure (Himanshu, Mint, 1 April 2010)
• India's Mountains of Shame (Zia Haq, Hindustan Times, 30 March 2010)
• India's Safety nets collapse in Balangir (Priya Ranjan Sahu, Hindustan Times, 29 March 2010)
• The menu is still a la carte (Hindustan Times, 23 March 2010)
• Bill may offer far less than what poor need (Samar Halarnkar and Gaurav Choudhury, Hindustan Times, 23 March 2010)
• Pathway to Food Security for all (M. S. Swaminathan, The Hindu, 29 March 2010)
• The Wretched of the Earth (Rukmini Shrinivasan, The Times of India, 19 December 2009)
• The Poverty estimates debate (Biraj Patnaik, livemint.com, 13 December 2009)
• Rallying against Hunger (Chandni Mehta, The Hindu, 6 December 2009)
• Food Insecurity in Incredible India (Kathyayini Chamaraj, Infochange India News & Features, September 2009)
• Fishing for the Food Safety Net (Biraj Patnaik, The Financial Express, 30 August 2009)
• Legislating against Hunger (Zoya Hasan, The Hindu, 27 August 2009)
• Drought of Policymaking vision (Biraj Patnaik, livemint.com, 19 August 2009)
• Whose Right is it anyway? (Ashwini Kulkarni, Indian Express, 15 August 2009)
• Food for All (Jayati Ghosh, Frontline, Volume 26, Issue 17 August 15-28 2009)
• Holding the State accountable for Hunger (Surabh Chopra, Economic and Political Weekly, 15 August 2009 )
• The Food Economy: How will the government reach food to the target families? (Bhaskar Dutta, The Telegraph, 30 July 2009)
• Right to Food Act: Essential but Inadequate (Rahul Lahoti and Sanjay G. Reddy, The Hindu, 28 July 2009)
• Cheaper grain's only one part of a Food Security Act (Himanshu, Live Mint, 24 July 2009)
• India: Make Hunger History (Devinder Sharma, atlanticfreepress.com, 22 July 2009)
• A Grain of Good Sense (Jean Drèze, The Outlook, 20 July 2009)
• Right to Food Act: Beyond Cheap Promises (Reetika Khera, Economic and Political Weekly, 18 July 2009)
• Exiling Hunger from Every Home (Harsh Mander, The Hindu, 5 July 2009)
• How to tackle India's Hunger (Biraj Patnaik, Live Mint, 2 July 2009)
• For Inclusive Approach to Food Security (Brinda Karat, The Hindu, 30 June 2009)
• Food Security Act (Researchers of IFMR, India Development Blog, 30 Jun 2009)
• Synergy between Food Security Act and NREGA (M. S. Swaminathan, The Hindu, 01 Jun 2009)

Last updated: 23 December 2011