FOOD MATTERS Law, Policy and Hunger
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Price: Rs. 115. "This book is being published at a very significant moment in our history. India has witnessed a decade of rapid, unprecedented. economic growth, but this has not translated in to reductions in mass poverty or unemployment or malnutrition or deprivations in health and education. It is important for us, then, to understand the nature of economic policy making and how it has excluded rather than included the vast majority in the process of development." - Madhura Swaminadhan. BRINDA KARAT has been involved in numerous struggles on the right to food security and against hunger. During her term as a member of the Rajya Sabha she had made significant interventions in Parliament on Government policies related to food and rising prices, always acting as a partisan for the poor and raising the voice of resistance. She has in the course of her four decades of public life worked with different sections of the working people, as a Secretary in the Textile Workers Union and among workers in the unorganised sector, as the General Secretary of the All India Democratic Women's Association and also as a serving member of the Central Committee of the Adivasi Adhikar Rashtriya Manch. Brinda Karat is a member of the Polit Bureau of the CPI(M).