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Milletary Rule -Prasun Chaudhuri

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published Published on Mar 20, 2022   modified Modified on Mar 23, 2022

-The Telegraph

The story of a reversal that may yet rescue Indians from being hungry and undernourished

I first tasted kodo, a coarse foodgrain, when I was barely seven. It was at the home of our Adivasi domestic help in Piska, a roadside railway station near Lohardaga in what was then southern Bihar. The porridge she cooked with kodo, jaggery and a bit of salt tasted much better than the gruel I was force-fed for breakfast. When I told her this, she said, “We eat kodo because we can’t afford rice or wheat. It’s a seed of grass grown in the wild.”

Years later, while travelling through Odisha’s Balangir forests, I spotted similar stalks of grain strewn out to dry on the metalled road. My fellow traveller, a botanist, told me that those stalks were panicles of cow grass or ditch millet, one of the most ancient foodgrains grown in the tropics and sub-tropics — India, west Africa and east Asia.

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The Telegraph, 20 March, 2022, https://www.telegraphindia.com/culture/milletary-rule-the-story-of-a-reversal-that-may-yet-rescue-indians-from-being-hungry-and-undernourished/cid/1856712


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