Hunger

Discussion of inequality in India is often trapped in numbers and statistics. But the distinctive quality of Drèze's work is that he brings forward the human being hidden behind those numbers. The face of a grandmother sleeping hungry in a hut, of a tribal youth who goes to ask for work on a farm and returns empty-handed, of a Dalit woman who comes back with nothing because her Aadhaar scan would not work all these faces remain alive in Drèze's research.