The kid is three-years-old but weighs just 2 kg.
We must know what is happening outside cities--in rural India, tribal-dominated pockets of the country.
Words like 'malnutrition' often don't convey the horror unless you see these pictures.
If woes of employment, agrarian crisis are ignored, lack of health facilities--it takes days before administration wakes up when epidemic breaks.
The photo is courtesy Dainik Bhaskar but it was not published in their main editions. The child's mother Virvati died sometime ago. Father takes care of the child.
When a health team recently visited the village, they found the kids, malnourished. The father-daughter live near Bamorkalan in Pichhor, Shivpuri [Madhya Pradesh] Look at the kid, doesn't it break your heart?
But this is not the issue in urban India. Our newspapers know that it doesn't 'sell'. When urban Indian wakes up, they don't want to read such stuff that would 'disturb' them.
