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  1. Almost everyone loves a `poor’ India

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    / March 26, 2012 / Leave a comment
    Last week, there was a huge uproar in the Lok Sabha because the Planning Commission decided that poverty has decreased in the country by 7% since 2004. The planning comission also said that “These calculations are based on the daily per capita consumption of Rs. 28 in urban areas and Rs....

  2. How much should a person consume?

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    / October 15, 2011 / 2 Comments
    How much? If we are concerned about our great appetite for materials, it is plausible to seek to increase the supply, or decrease waste, to make better use of the stocks that are available, and to develop substitutes. But what of the appetite itself? Surely this is the ultimate source...

  3. The definition of `poverty’ has to change

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    / October 1, 2011 / 2 Comments
    By E A S Sarma   On September 6, 2010, the Prime Minister had said that “it is not possible in this country to give free food to all the poor people”. Close on the heels of this came the affidavit filed by Planning Commission before Hon’ble Supreme Court that...

  4. Can the hungry go on a hunger strike?

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    / August 21, 2011 / 4 Comments
    By Arundhati Roy Our country is poised at a dangerous place right now for many reasons. There are all kinds of battles for supremacy. There are real resistances, there are theatrical and false resistances, revolutions from the top, revolutions from the bottom. And sometimes all of this is interpreted by...

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