Hi, Thanks Salil for those links. Will go through them. Went through your article on the Life on the 32 line. I don't think Utsa Patnaik refers to calorific intake - she's talking about absorption of foodgrains going down, defining absorption as a sum of both direct intake and indirect spend - for livestock feed etc.
Aadisht, I didn't know about her previous work - I have gone through only Republic of Hunger. I am still not convinced that people buying less food because they are buying other things argument works - I may not buy rice, but I'll buy processed foods. But yes, I agree that the lack of data from different sources makes such debates baseless. Thanks, Sruthi
