Sep 1, Saturday. Time manages to be in two boats at once, end of the week and start of the month.
Meanwhile in Gujarat, Modi informs the Wall Street Journal that the high levels of malnutrition among children in his state can be attributed to the beauty conscious nature of the Indian middle class. This was in the context of a report which came out recently that claimed 47 % of children in Gujarat under the age of 3 are underweight. Modi supporters usually refer to his record of being an able administrator and Gujarat becoming a prosperous state under his watch. But as the Hindu puts it succinctly in the editorial today, "This is what makes Gujarat, which is a prosperous State in the macroeconomic sense, something of a puzzle. Some of its human development indicators are as bad as or worse than India’s poorest States."
Read the entire editorial here.
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