The sibling duo waiting for their mother to serve them food
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A girl eating her food in the slum areas of Delhi
Courtesy: Suresh K Pandey
Charmed Circle
Chandra Sekhar Kundu serves a wholesome meal to children in Asansol
Photograph by Sandipan Chatterjee
Taboo-Busting
A Poshan workshop at a village in Murshidabad, West Bengal
Twenty-three percent of women age 15-49 are thin, 21 percent are overweight or obese, and 56 percent have a Body Mass Index (BMI) in the normal range. Eleven percent of women age 1...
Between 2005-06 and 2015-16, the prevalence of anaemia among children age 6-59 months declined from 70 percent to 59 percent, but continued to be higher among rural children.
A child at the malnutrition ward at the Community Health Centre in Baran District, Rajasthan.
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Malnourished child from Sahariya Tribe at Kelwada Panchayat, Baran district, Rajasthan. In India, 46.6 million children are impacted by wasting, according to Global Nutrition Repor...
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Malnourished children at a village in Lalitpur district in Uttar Pradesh's Bundelkhand region. The problem of malnutrition in India remains severe.
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Photo by Tribhuvan Tiwari/Outlook
Photo by Tribhuvan Tiwari/Outlook
A child suffering from malnutrition in Baran district, Rajasthan. According to a report, India has one-third of world's stunted children.
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A child suffering from malnutrition in Baran district in Rajasthan.
Photo by Sanjay Rawat/Outlook
A malnourished child at a community health center in Baran District in Rajasthan. according to a global nutrition report, India holds almost a third of the world's burden for stunt...
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A woman carries her son outside her home at a village in Bundelkhand's Lalitpur district. In Lalitpur, almost all children are malnourished.
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An old woman looks on her ill grandson in Uttar Pradesh's Bundelkhand. According to the Global Nutrition Report published recently, India accounts for 25.5 million children who are...
On National Girl Child Day, here's a primer on how the prevailing inequalities, socio-cultural norms, and discrimination in providing nutrition to girls impacts the entire nation
The recent report of NFHS indicates a high prevalence of overweight/obesity, hypertension and elevated random blood glucose levels in Indian men and women
Food security and nutrition in India have worsened since the last NFHS round with 18 states showing worsened stunting levels among children under five.
For children from India’s poorest families, a lost year of learning has been the least of their losses. School closure has meant the loss of safe spaces, daily nourishment, and the very experience of childhood.
A pilot study reveals low blood sugar at birth and genetic diseases, are important underlying cause for a common form of epilepsy in young Indian children
Bhupesh Baghel, Chhattisgarh chief minister, discusses his achievements as well as the challenges faced by his government with Outlook’s Editor-in-chief Ruben Banerjee
Prasanta Tripathy and Nirmala Nair left global careers to settle in Chakradharpur. They set up Ekjut in 2002 to provide health and nutrition training on community participation
Mohammed Suhail CS from near Mysore dropped out of Class 12 and was inspired by a Stanford professor to devise an inexpensive test to check protein deficiency
Now the SP in Maoist heartland, Pallava is a post-graduate in psychiatry from AIIMS, Delhi. He is winning people's trust by putting his knowledge on malnutrition and diseases
A girl who had cancer changed Purnota Dutta Bahl’s life. She quit an MNC job and set out to change the nutrition profile of underprivileged kids to empower their battle against the disease.