two-year-old Rajini's naked shrivelled frame casts a dark shadow over a rising India, where millions of children have little to eat.


The children are scrawny, listless and sick in this run-down nutrition clinic in central India with its intermittent power supply. If they survive they will grow up shorter, weaker and less smart than their better-fed peers.


Rajini weighs 5kg, about half of what she should.


"She's as light as a leaf, this can't be good," says her grandmother, Sushila Devi, poking her rib-protruding stomach in the clinic in Shivpuri district in Madhya Pradesh state. True Smile