'Civil society has taken on the White man's burden'

November 01, 2012 17:50

"When England colonised us they took on the White man's burden. They took upon the burden to educate us. Civil society is doing the same thing by the Right to Food..." says Professor Pradeep Bhargava in conversation with Rediff.com's Archana Masih. Read

Prof Bhargava is an advisor to the commissioners of the Supreme Court in the People's Union of Civil Liberties case on the Right to Food, and has also been a mid-career fellow at the Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University and a Visiting Fellow at the Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex.

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