Hartosh Singh Bal is the political editor at The Caravan and the author of Waters Close Over Us: A Journey Along the Narmada. He was formerly the political editor at Open magazine.
Hartosh Singh Bal
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Beyond the Bubble
This essay was originally published in The Caravan. In 2002, a year after Amartya Sen’s well-known essay on hunger, “Old Torments and New Blunders,” was first published, I travelled through parts of northwest Madhya Pradesh and adjacent areas of Rajasthan, which are home to Sahariya tribals, to report on hunger-related deaths in the community. I […]
