Lost Childhoods

For all the talk of India’s healthy growth rates, a report released this month by international NGO Save the Children shows we have more stunted children than any other country as a result of chronic malnutrition. The report, titled ‘Stolen Childhoods’, assessed rates of ‘under-5 mortality, malnutrition that stunts growth, out-of-school children, child labour, early marriage, adolescent births, displacement by conflict and child homicide’, arguing that while there ‘have been major gains for children in the past 25 years... recent progress in fighting extreme poverty has often not reached those children who need it most’.