{"id":34054,"date":"2021-07-14T14:00:04","date_gmt":"2021-07-14T05:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2021\/jul\/14\/hunger-sweeps-india-in-covids-shadow-as-millions-miss-out-on-rations"},"modified":"2021-07-14T14:00:04","modified_gmt":"2021-07-14T05:00:04","slug":"hunger-sweeps-india-in-covids-shadow-as-millions-miss-out-on-rations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=34054","title":{"rendered":"Hunger sweeps India in Covid\u2019s shadow as millions miss out on rations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Desperation grows for those unable to access subsidised food, as worst hunger in two decades reported <\/p>\n<p>When India\u2019s devastating second wave of Covid-19 struck in April, Nazia Habib Khan\u2019s second marriage abruptly came to an end after a year of beatings and abuse. The 28-year-old daughter of migrants from the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh returned to live with her mother, brothers and a sister-in-law in Mumbai.<\/p>\n<p>Their 40 sq metre (400 sq ft) home in Kurla East stands huddled among the 800 or so brick, tin sheet and tarpaulin houses of Qureshi Nagar, the entire shanty town trembling when a train roars past on a nearby railway line.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2021\/jul\/14\/hunger-sweeps-india-in-covids-shadow-as-millions-miss-out-on-rations\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Desperation grows for those unable to access subsidised food, as worst hunger in two decades reported When India\u2019s devastating second wave of Covid-19 struck in April, Nazia Habib Khan\u2019s second marriage abruptly came to an end after a year of beatings &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2318,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1066,1149,59,1389,62,958,79,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coronavirus","category-food-security","category-global-development","category-hunger","category-india","category-poverty","category-society","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2318"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34054"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34054\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34055,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34054\/revisions\/34055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}