Despite its status as an economic powerhouse, deadly malnutrition persists to a bewildering degree in India, often hidden in plain sight. South Asia, in fact, has the greatest concentration of deadly acute malnutrition on the planet, while India alone accounts for 54% of all undernutrition- related child deaths worldwide.
This means there are around eight million severely malnourished children across the country., Around 7,00,000 of theme are in Bihar where I did this work about malnutrition.
Undernutrition in India is the product of the usual suspects: widespread poverty, endemic hunger, rapid population growth, pockets of weak governance, poor health systems and unreliable national indicators, all of which are compounded by issues of caste, ethnicity, religion and gender.