Mumbai and malnutrition are rarely, if ever, spoken in the same sentence. The popular perception is that the city, with a Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of an eye-popping US $140 billion and more than 90 billionaires, cannot have something as backward as malnutrition. For years, the spectre of malnutrition among children up to six years of age, which is a determinant of their physical and mental growth, was seen to be concentrated in the tribal areas of Palghar, about 100 kilometres from Mumbai. When the Human Development Index for the city was first undertaken and the HDI report presented in 2009, the only time........

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