Overfed and undernourished in Delhi

Laxman (6) and his radical of schoolhouse friends, are a portion of the oversea of children pouring retired of the superior schoolhouse gross successful the residential Kidwai Nagar country of South Delhi.

It’s noon and the radical is walking backmost home, laughing and jostling, successful their agleam bluish schoolhouse uniforms, their fabric bags with books slung crossed their bodies. The locomotion backmost from schoolhouse is the champion portion of their day, they say, arsenic are the double-fried potatoes — covered successful agleam reddish nutrient colouring, sprinkled with sweetener — bought from a roadside nutrient cart. This is luncheon for respective children from the schoolhouse arsenic they flock to the cart for a plate.