Dhaka, July 29 -- In October 2023, images emerged from Gaza of a mother boiling grass to feed her children. Weeks later, in India's Jharkhand state, news quietly surfaced of a nine-year-old tribal boy who collapsed in his classroom from chronic undernourishment.

Separated by 4,000 kilometers and vastly different political contexts, both children were victims of the same structural violence. Hunger is not a misfortune. It is policy.

In both Gaza and India, hunger is not about the unavailability of food. It is about access. Who gets food, who is denied it, and why. This is not a failure of logistics or nature. It is a failure of politics. And in both cases, the children suffering are mostly poor, racialized, and forgotten.

India is no st...