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The Vikram lander touches down to become the first spacecraft to land near the Moon's south pole.
  • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
    833·
    2 years ago

    All it took for them to afford the PR mission was decades of ignoring starving children!

    https://www.thelancet.com/journals/eclinm/article/PIIS2589-5370(23)00067-6/fulltext

    Don’t worry, India has a caste system so they made sure the “right” kids didn’t starve…

    The prevalence of Zero-Food in India marginally declined from 20.0% (95% CI: 19.3%–20.7%) in 1993 to 17.8% (95% CI: 17.5%–18.1%) in 2021. There were considerable differences in the trajectories of change in the prevalence of Zero-Food across states. Chhattisgarh, Mizoram, and Jammu and Kashmir experienced high increase in the prevalence of Zero-Food over this time period, while Nagaland, Odisha, Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh witnessed a significant decline. In 2021, Uttar Pradesh (27.4%), Chhattisgarh (24.6%), Jharkhand (21%), Rajasthan (19.8%) and Assam (19.4%) were states with the highest prevalence of Zero-Food. As of 2021, the estimated number of Zero-Food children in India was 5,998,138, with the states of Uttar Pradesh (28.4%), Bihar (14.2%), Maharashtra (7.1%), Rajasthan (6.5%), and Madhya Pradesh (6%) accounting for nearly two-thirds of the total Zero-Food children in India. Zero-Food in 2021 was concerningly high among children aged 6–11 months (30.6%) and substantial even among children aged 18–23 months (8.5%). Overall, socioeconomically advantaged groups had lower prevalence of Zero-Food than disadvantaged groups.

    • NocturnalMorning@lemmy.worldEnglish
      181·
      2 years ago

      Pretty sure those two things are unrelated. It’s possible to do science, and have social safety nets. Let’s at least not be disingenuous here about the issue.

      • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
        217·
        2 years ago

        Oh…

        You think they have the money/resources to do both and just choose not to help those areas filled with the people on the bottom rung of India’s caste system?

        I’ll be honest, I didn’t think Modi would be that evil… But your right, maybe he wants the children in those areas to starve to death and that’s why his government won’t help even tho they can

        • NocturnalMorning@lemmy.worldEnglish
          71·
          2 years ago

          You’re up on your high horse about it. But it does happen in other countries. No reason India would be different.