-Outlook Social indices topper Kerala just can't stop the baby deaths in its malnutrition-hit tribal Attapady belt Under the thick canopy of a peepal tree, beside the road that winds to Pallur Ooru in Attapady in the Western Ghats, is a small tribal burial ground. There are no tombstones to mark the graves and on closer look one sees tiny mounds where the mud has been disturbed. In a quiet corner,...
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Amartya Sen: India's dirty fighter-Madeleine Bunting
-The Guardian Half of Indians have no toilet. It's one of many gigantic failures that have prompted Nobel prize-winning academic Amartya Sen to write a devastating critique of India's economic boom The roses are blooming at the window in the immaculately kept gardens of Trinity College, Cambridge and Amartya Sen is comfortably ensconced in a cream armchair facing shelves of his neatly catalogued writings. There are plenty of reasons for satisfaction...
More »Iron pills leave 200 Delhi schoolchildren ill, 21 in hospital -Raj Shekhar & Durgesh Nandan Jha
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: A day after more than 20 schoolchildren died after eating a contaminated mid-day meal in Bihar's Chapra district, Delhi had its own scare when 21 kids had to be rushed to hospitals across the city after they were given iron and folic acid tablets during a government drive against anaemia. The children, aged 9 to 17, had severe stomach ache, nausea and vomiting on Wednesday -...
More »Bihar midday meal horror: 22 children die in Saran, 50 students fall ill in Madhubani
-PTI PATNA: A day after deaths due to contaminated midday meal at a government primary school in Saran district, about 50 children of another government school were taken ill on Wednesday after they were served food under the scheme in Madhubani district of the state. The food was served to students of Navtolia Middle School, Bisfi, about 22 km from here. The students alleged that the meal had a dead lizard in...
More »Food security law that puts women and children last -Shailey Hingorani and Allison Hutchings
-The Hindu The National Food Security Ordinance, which President Pranab Mukherjee signed into law last week, has been touted as especially attentive to the needs of women and children. A closer inspection of the Ordinance, however, suggests otherwise - its provisions in fact ignore the distinct socio-economic roles of women and children in society. Moreover, the Ordinance glosses over entire subsets of women and children, including those who are arguably the...
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