At least 8.82 lakh Indian children under the age of five died of malnutrition in 2018. We rank 102 out of 117 in the Global Hunger Index
2019, which reported that around 90 per cent of children aged between six and 23 months in the country don’t even get the minimum
required food.
According to the National Family Health Survey 2015-16 (NFHS-4), the Infant Mortality Rate in urban India is 29 as compared to rural which is at 46 per
1000 live births, while the under-five child mortality rate
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is a documentary
photographer based in Mumbai.
is a senior journalist, who has worked in print and digital media for over two decades. She has written on lifestyle and social issues, tracked trends and interviewed a variety of people during her stints with the Free Press Journal, the Sunday Times of India and as founding editor of Mother & Baby magazine's India edition. For the last five years, she has been writing independently for a number of publications.
