Luxury and hunger: India sees two faces of an unequal pandemic

Times of India

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Luxury and hunger: India sees two faces of an unequal pandemic

Modi has extended — until November — an existing program to make available fixed amounts of free food grains to 800 million people. Additional wheat and rice entitlements did help the poor last year. Yet, in the absence of incomes, the bottom quartile of the population had to drastically cut down expenditure on eggs, meat and fruit.