Barkha’s husband, Pintu, earns Rs 7,000 a month as a salesman in a company. “I don’t spend much on food, but we don’t go hungry,” she says. Her two older children, Tanisha and Lucky, look healthy as they run around their cramped house in Prem Nagar in Lal Kuan village on the Mehrauli-Badarpur road in New Delhi. But the youngest, five-year-old Ayush, is emaciated and pale.
Ayush is lucky to have survived at all. He was born at home and weighed just 1.5 kg. He. . .