The news and articles posted in this site, mostly, are linked and or taken from different sources i.e., national and local papers and news magazines, ministries’ and state governments’ websites. Some are written by the Commissioners and staff. Only significant news and articles are contained here: those that convey “real issues” relevant to the “discourse” on the right to food.
These news and articles are classified by year, by state, and by subject.
| Year | State | Subject | Title | Author/Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | Delhi | Homelessness | Homeless to be counted on the night of Feb 28 | Avantika Shrivastava, msn.com |
| 2011 | Goa | Homelessness | Provedoria opens doors to homeless | Paul Fernandes, Times of India |
| 2011 | All | Homelessness | Street children, homeless gear up for Census | oneindia.com |
| 2010 | Uttar Pradesh | Homelessness | India floods leave 2 million people homeless, destroy crops | The Economic Times |
| 2010 | All | Homelessness | 100,000 homes for the homeless in India by 2015 | newkerala.com |
| 2010 | Bihar, West Bengal | Homelessness | Tornado leaves almost one million homeless in India | International Business Times |
| 2009 | All | Homelessness | Homeless in India | lawyerjourno.com |
| 2009 | Delhi | Homelessness | India razes slums, leaves poor homeless | Sara Sidner, CNN World |
| 2008 | Bihar | Homelessness | Trauma of hunger displacing fear of homelessnes | Nikhil Dve, IBNLive.in.com |
| 2008 | All | Homelessness | Street-side story | Arpan Tulsyan, indiatogether.org |
| 2007 | Mumbai | Homelessness | Homeless in Mumbai | Abhishek Bharadwaj, merinews.com |
| 2005 | Delhi | Homelessness | Homeless in Delhi | Annie Zaide, Frontline magazine |
| 1987 | All | Homelessness | Homelessness - an Issue | Hari Shrinivas, gdrc.org |
| 2011 | All | Food Entitlement Bill | A flawed approach to food security | Himanshu Kumar, livemint.com |
| 2011 | All | Food Entitlement Bill | India's foodgrain policy:an economic perspective (pdf) | Kaushik Basu, Economic & Political Weekly |
| 2011 | All | Homelessness | India takes step forward in tackling maternal health | Guardian |
| 2011 | All | Food Entitlement Bill | Going against grain | Reetika Khera, Hindustan Times |
| 2010 | All | Food Entitlement Bill | A right denied (pdf) | Jayati Ghosh, Frontline Magazine |
| 2010 | Assam | ICDS | On the margin | Sushant Talukdar, Frontline Magazine |
| 2010 | All | ICDS | Dividing Children | T.K. Rajalakshmi, Frontline Magazine |
| 2010 | Jammu and Kashmir | MGNREGA | Barefoots | Harsh Mander, The Hindu |
| 2010 | All | Food Entitlement Bill | Stunted India | A.K. Sivakumar, Frontline Magazine |
| 2010 | All | Food Entitlement Bill | Dharana (pdf) | Sameet Panda, SCC |
| 2010 | Orissa | Starvation | JCE: circumstantial evidences prove starvation deaths in Orissa? (pdf) | SCC |
| 2010 | Madhya Pradesh | Starvation | Spread Hunger | Mahim Pratap Sing, Frontline Magazine |
| 2010 | Jarkhand | Starvation | Chronic Hunger | Ajoy Ashirwad Mahaprashasta, Frontline Magazine |
| 2010 | All | ICDS,TPDS | Blinkered vision | Vandana Prasad, Frontline Magazine |
| 2010 | Haryana | ICDS | Less than normal | T.K. Rajalakshmi, Frontline Magazine |
| 2010 | Maharashtra | ICDS, TPDS, MGNREGA | No jobs, no food | Lyla Bavadam, Frontline Magazine |
| 2010 | Gujarat, Jammu and Kashmir | TPDS | The Gujjars and Bakerwals of J&K | M.L. Dhar, international newsandviews.com |
| 2010 | All | TPDS | The wrongs about the right to food | Ananya Mukherjee Reed, Outlook Magazine |
| 2010 | All | TPDS | Not a grain truth | Samar Halamkar, Hindustan Times |
| 2010 | All | TPDS | UPA loves inflation | Sadiq Naqvi, Hard News |
| 2010 | All | TPDS, ICDS, National Food Entitlement Bill | Their growth pangs | Samar Halamkar, Hindustan Times |
| 2009 | All | TPDS | Modernisation of Public Distribution System in India through Computerisation (pdf) | N.C. Saxena, SCC |
| 2008 | All | ICDS | Biscuits can't replace mid-day meals in schools (pdf) | |
| 2008 | Jharkhand | MGNREGA | Attacking the Right to Ask (pdf) | |
| 2008 | All | MGNREGA | Lifeline for the rural poor (pdf) | |
| 2008 | All | MGNREGA | My Budget Wish! (pdf) | Shivnath Thukrat, NDTV |
| 2008 | All | MGNREGA | Employment guarantee: beyond propaganda (pdf) | Jean Dreze |
| 2008 | Rajasthan | MGNREGA | Triumph of transparency (pdf) | Sowmya Kerbart Sivakumar |
| 2008 | All | MGNREGA | Move beyond spadework (pdf) | S.B. Mishra, Hindustan Times |
| 2007 | All | ICDS | Reducing Malnutrition in India (pdf) | N.C. Saxena, SCC |
| 2007 | All | ICDS | Children in the XI Plan—Outlays and Outcomes (pdf) | N.C. Saxena, SCC |
| 2007 | Jharkhand | ICDS | Brief Review of Food Supply to ICDS programme in Jharkhand (pdf) | N.C. Saxena, SCC |
| 2007 | All | ICDS | Contempt action dropped against four Chief Secretaries | The Hindu |
| 2007 | Gujarat | ICDS | Life miserable in Gujarat relief colonies: court panel (pdf) | |
| 2007 | Chhattisgarh | ICDS | India grapples with hunger pangs (pdf) | NDTV |
| 2007 | Madhya Pradesh | ICDS | Anganwadis provide nutritious food (pdf) | Rubina Khan Shapoo, MP |
| 2007 | Rajasthan | ICDS | The paradox that is Rajasthan (pdf) | Vimala Ramachandran |
| 2007 | All | TPDS | Public Distribution System in India—A few suggestions (pdf) | N.C. Saxena, SCC |
| 2007 | All | MGNREGA | Employment Guarantee: Progress So Far (pdf) | Lalit Mathur, Economic & Political Weekly |
| 2007 | Andhra Pradesh, Orissa | MGNREGA | A Happy Tale From Two States (pdf) | Yamini Aiyar |
| 2007 | Orissa | MGNREGA | NREGA: Dismantling The Contractor Raj (pdf) | Jean Dreze |
| 2007 | Tamil Nadu | MGNREGA | The Hundred Days Basket (pdf) | Nirmala Lakshman |
| 2007 | Tamil Nadu | MGNREGA | State Government considering creches on NREGA worksites (pdf) | |
| 2007 | Tamil Nadu | MGNREGA | Long Road to Employment Guarantee (pdf) | Jean Dreze and Sowmya Kidambi, The Hindu |
| 2007 | All | MGNREGA | Commendable Act (pdf) | Jean Dreze and Christian Oldiges |
| 2007 | Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh | MGNREGA | Future in a Job Card (pdf) | |
| 2007 | Chhattisgarh | MGNREGA | New Hope For NREGA From Chhattisgarh (pdf) | Avijit Ghosh, TNN |
| 2006 | All | ICDS | Investing in our children (pdf) | |
| 2006 | Assam, Bihar, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh, Manipur, Punjab, West Bengal, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh | ICDS | Supreme Court summons nine Chief Secretaries (pdf) | |
| 2006 | All | ICDS | ICDS — The Entitlement of Every Indian Child (pdf) | Nirmala Lakshman |
| 2006 | All | ICDS | India Prosperity Creates Paradox; Many Children Are Fat, Even More Are Famished | Somini Sengupta, New York Times |
| 2006 | All | ICDS | India has failed in childcare and nutrition, says Amartya Sen | Parul Sharma |
| 2006 | All | ICDS | Gaping holes in child development scheme (pdf) | |
| 2006 | All | ICDS | India's future goes to bed hungry (pdf) | |
| 2006 | Delhi | ICDS | Government makes a meal (pdf) | Nidhi Sharma, TNN |
| 2006 | All | ICDS | Children under six - out of the spotlight (pdf) | Jean Dreze |
| 2006 | All | ICDS | The entitlement of every Indian child (pdf) | Nirmala Lakshman, The Hindu |
| 2006 | Madhya Pradesh | ICDS | Kids steeped in hunger, while officials fiddle (pdf) | Sachin Kumar Jain |
| 2006 | All | ICDS | Hundred and twenty-ninth report of the committee on petitions (pdf) | Rajya Sabha, Government of India |
| 2006 | All | ICDS | Feed babies when they are born (pdf) | Arun Gupta, Civil Society Magazine |
| 2006 | All | MDMS | School meals make slow progress (pdf) | Padmalatha Ravi |
| 2006 | Karnataka | TPDS | Ration-Cards for Marginalized Families: a field study in Karnataka (pdf) | Narendra Foundation and ActionAid International India |
| 2006 | All | TPDS | Ends and Means (pdf) | C.H. Hanumantha Rao, Times of India |
| 2005 | All | ICDS | Young Children's Well-being: A Public Concern (pdf) | Dipa Sinha |
| 2005 | All | ICDS | Struggle for their rights | Kathyayini Chamaraj |
| 2005 | All | ICDS | Footsoldiers ask for a Better Deal (pdf) | Kathyayini Chamaraj |
| 2005 | All | ICDS | The unsung heroines of India (pdf) | Jayati Ghosh |
| 2005 | All | ICDS | Resolution of the National Convention on Regularisation of ICDS (pdf) | |
| 2005 | All | ICDS | Comments on ICDS Budget, 2005–2006 (pdf) | HAQ Centre for Child Rights |
| 2005 | All | MDMS | Food, for education (pdf) | Annie Zaidi |
| 2005 | All | TPDS | It is time for Kumbhakarna to wake up (pdf) | The Hindu |
| 2005 | All | TPDS | Theorising food security and poverty in the era of economic reforms (pdf) | Utsa Patnaik, Jawharlal Nehru University |
| 2005 | All | TPDS, MDMS | Whose Right to Food: Caste Discrimination and Food Security Programs (pdf) | Sukhadeo Thorat and Joel Lee, Indian Institute of Dalit Studies |
| 2004 | All | ICDS | Literature Survey on the ICDS (pdf) | Antara Haldar |
| 2004 | All | MDMS | Groundswell for mid-day meal scheme (pdf) | Kalpana Parikh and Summiya Yasmeen, indiatogether.org |
| 2004 | All | MDMS | Reforming the Mid-day Meal Programme (pdf) | Madhu and Bharat Dogra |
| 2004 | All | MDMS | Towards effective school health (pdf) | Tara Gopaldas |
| 2004 | All | MDMS | Dalits and the right to food: discrimination and exclusion in food related government programs (pdf) | Sukhadeo Thorat and Joel Lee, Indian Institute of Dalit Studies |
| 2004 | West Bengal | MDMS | The Possibilities of Mid-day Meal Programme in West Bengal (pdf) | Kumar Rana, Pratichi Trust |
| 2004 | All | MDMS | Mid-day meal scheme and schools—A need for universal Coverage (pdf) | Shantha Sinha |
| 2003 | All | ICDS | Household Food Security and Integrated Child Development Services in India (pdf) | Brinda Viswanathan, Madras School of Economics |
| 2003 | All | MDMS | Hunger in the Classroom (pdf) | Jean Dreze and Vivek S. |
| 2003 | Gujarat | MDMS | These kids told: you are Dalit, go eat elsewhere (pdf) | Janyala Sreenivas, Indian Express |
| 2003 | Karnataka | MDMS | Untouchable Lunch (pdf) | Parvathi Menon |
| 2003 | Uttar Pradesh, Bihar | MDMS | Strike Against Hunger (pdf) | Anita Pratap, Outlook Magazine |
| 2003 | Tamil Nadu | MDMS | Strike Against Hunger (pdf) | Anuradha K. Rajivan |
| 2002 | Rajasthan | MDMS | Mid-day Meals in Rajasthan | Reetika Khera |
| 2002 | Maharashtra | TPDS | Civil Society Engagement and India’s Public Distribution System: Lessons from the Rationing Kruti Samiti in Mumbai (pdf) | Rob Jenkins and Anne Marie Goetz |
| 2001 | Orissa | MDMS | Hero by name and deed (pdf) | The Hindu |
| 1994 | All | MDMS | Sampoorna Bal Vikas (pdf) | M.P. Parameswaran |