-The Telegraph New Delhi: Poor implementation of welfare schemes by the Delhi government allowed for conditions in which three sisters - Mansi, 8, Shikha, 4, and Parul, 2 - died of starvation in the national capital last month, a fact-finding report by a group of six activists has found. The team that included Harsh Mander, a former bureaucrat and special commissioner to the Supreme Court for Right to Food cases, found that...
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Fact finding report observes serious loopholes in the implementation of NFSA that caused recent Hunger deaths of Delhi kids
-Delhi Rozi Roti Adhikar Abhiyan and Right to Food Campaign, dated 1st August, 2018 Three minor girls Mansi (8), Shikha (4) and Parul (2) died on July 24, 2018 in Mandawali, East Delhi and the post mortem reports listed starvation as the cause of the deaths. Members of the Delhi Rozi Roti Adhikar Abhiyan (DRRAA)- Anjali Bhardwaj and Amrita Johri along with Harsh Mander (former special commissioner to the Supreme...
More »Death by Hunger is India's tragic reality -Shashi Shekhar
-Hindustan Times It is pertinent to realise that 34 out of 1,000 children born in the country die in the mother’s womb itself. Nine lakh children below the age of five die much before they can comprehend the meaning of independent India and approximately 19 crore people in the country are compelled to sleep on an empty stomach. The history of the nation won’t record the names of Shikha, Manasi or Parul...
More »Hunger kills sisters
-The Telegraph New Delhi: Three sisters, aged two to eight, died of complications caused by starvation on Monday night, a post-mortem report revealed on Wednesday. The eldest weighed just 15kg. Mansi, Shikha and Parul were eight, four and two, respectively. They were already dead when neighbours brought them to Lal Bahadur Shastri Hospital in Khichripur, east Delhi, in the early hours of Tuesday. "We were informed by the hospital around 1.30pm yesterday (Tuesday)...
More »Getting the language count right -GN Devy
-The Hindu Recent Census data appear to inadequately reflect India’s linguistic composition, and are inconsistent with global ideas The story, “Death of Jagmohan, the Elephant”, by Bengali writer Mahasweta Devi, is about the death of an elephant. For a reader, the story may appear to be about a rather “big death”, but what the writer wanted to say was that there are also many “small deaths”. They include the deaths of Dalits...
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