The last grain on the plate
With the pandemic souring on our doors, it did provide the avenue of one good cause – letting go of the food wastages in magnanimous weddings due to the number of guest restrictions. It’s a social compulsion in India to hold bigger weddings and make it a life event by expending on decorations, clothes, people, and food. This industry is growing and with it the economic boost that it brings with it. In the morning when tons of food is wasted and thrown away, it casts poor on the record of a country dealing with severe malnutrition problem among the hungry populace. During several famines situation, Britishers had held Grand darbars and never shied in arranging the luxuries. This had antagonized the nationalists and the masses every time for the cause of independence. Now that we are independent, what has changed? Nothing… Every upper and middle-middle class Indian who has the luxury for extra food on the plate, think minimum before leaving it. No images of skinny feeble & dying chi...