A Stepmotherly State
How short-sighted policymaking leaves children nutritionally vulnerable.
by Reetika Khera
Nov 29, 2019
3 minutes
India's abysmal nutritional outcomes become newsworthy for about two days every year, coinciding with the release of the Global Hunger Index (GHI) report. This year was no exception: for two days, a handful of media outlets bemoaned India's further slide in the rankings, a predictable highlight of which was that it had done worse than even PakistanIndia's Gabbar Singh'. Little attention is paid to two important caveats: one, the GHI ranking is rarely comparable across years and two,
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