Wwill India help the world banish the scourge of hunger? 20 March 2012, The Hindu

The world is turning into a strange place of paradoxes. On the one hand, there are an estimated one billion (100 crore) people – representing 14 per cent of the global population of seven billion – undernourished, while on the other, millions suffer from chronic diseases due to excess food consumption.b On the one hand, is the issue of affordability and accessibility to food for the poor and on the other, humungous subsidies and wastages.