In the ongoing debate on eggs versus soy in school mid-day meals, let's keep the focus where it belongs: children's nutrition and healthy growth.
Eggs are one of the most practical and nutrient-dense foods available. They provide complete, highly digestible protein with all essential amino acids in optimal proportions, along with key nutrients such as choline (essential for brain development), natural Vitamin B12, Vitamin D, selenium, and healthy fats.
Clinical studies have shown that regular egg consumption can improve growth in children, particularly in undernourished populations.
Soy chunks are also an affordable, protein-rich food and deserve a place in school meals. However, unlike eggs, they do not naturally provide Vitamin B12. While processing improves the digestibility of soy, eggs generally provide superior protein quality and bioavailability.
Other plant foods such as channa, rajma, chole and peanuts can further improve dietary diversity and contribute valuable nutrients. These can be safely added to all the students.
Dairy foods such as curd and paneer are also excellent sources of high-quality protein and naturally provide calcium and Vitamin B12. However, supplying dairy on a large scale is often more expensive and logistically more challenging because of production, transport, and cold-chain requirements.
Vitamin B12 deficiency remains common in India, making naturally B12-rich foods particularly valuable for supporting children's brain development, nerve function, red blood cell formation, and healthy growth.
In West Bengal, where fish has traditionally been a staple food for most families, including eggs in school meals is unlikely to conflict with the dietary practices of the majority.
At the same time, children from vegetarian families should always have an appropriate vegetarian alternative such as soy, pulses, and dairy.
This does not have to be an eggs versus soy debate.
The best approach is simple: offer eggs where culturally acceptable, while providing well-planned vegetarian alternatives for children who do not eat eggs. Soy, pulses, dairy, and other plant proteins can all play an important role in creating balanced, nutritious meals & these can be offered to all.
Respecting dietary preferences should never mean compromising children's nutrition.
Our children deserve school meals based on science, evidence, practicality, and the nutritional needs of growing bodies.
Police brutality.
If that sounds unhinged, these:
Fines so high, even corrupt cops don’t settle for ₹500.
Travel bans, easily implementable with Aadhaar.
Jail terms.
You can’t catch all, you don’t have to. Just enough to set spine-chilling examples.
Also, cameras.
Seats are booked to individuals, individuals are tied to Aadhaar, Aadhaar is linked to PAN, bank, address…endless possibilities.
Aadhaar not reliable enough in practice? Good question, lemme guess whose job it is to make it reliable enough. 🤔
Accident or a Beijing 9/11 ?
Difficultly with Capitalistic-Totalitarian
States masquerading as Communist utopia’s is there complete control over the information space.
Had this happened even in a nominally open society the information/ facts would have been broadcast across the world in a jiffy.
Note: How China successfully hid the origins of COVID-19 that ravaged the world from March 2020- July 2021
Killing hundreds and thousands of people across the world and enriching vaccine manafacturing companies.
https://t.co/XQIvZ0fiDG
Exactly right. And the analogy is even more precise than it appears.
Wimbledon is the only Grand Slam still played on grass. Every other major tennis tournament moved to clay or hard court decades ago. Nobody told the All England Club that grass was an unfair surface that advantaged English players. Nobody demanded Wimbledon redistribute its revenues to Roland Garros in the name of global competitive balance. The prestige, the tradition, and the commercial returns stayed exactly where the investment and the institution-building happened.
India built the IPL the way England built Wimbledon. On home soil. With home audiences. Through decades of institutional investment and commercial vision. The revenues follow because the product is world class and the market is the largest on earth.
The difference is that when Wimbledon earns billions, nobody calls it a problem for world tennis. When India earns billions from cricket, suddenly the language of fair distribution appears.
Same colonial entitlement. Different sport.
Hockey is the best example of colonialism in sport:
India won eight Olympic gold medals in field hockey. Eight. On natural grass, with a style of play built on individual brilliance, close control, and improvisation that no other nation could match.
Then came artificial turf, which was introduced at the 1976 Montreal Olympics. Overnight, the classical Indian game was rendered obsolete. The dribble was neutralized. Power and stamina replaced skill and artistry. European and Australian teams, better suited to the faster, harder surface, rose. India fell.
Coincidence? Perhaps. But the pattern is too familiar to ignore: when India dominates under one set of rules, the rules change.
The IPL is India rewriting the rules for once. On our terms. With our audiences. And our money.
You adjust now @BeefyBotham@MichaelVaughan.
Good point. Every taxpayer has been asking for it since long.
But I don't think Congress Govt will listen to you, but Good news is that BJP govt in 20 states, and your party leaders will definitely listen to you, please implement this there first so that others can follow it.
The issue is not this, the issue is that China wants India to keep the border issue aside in pursuit of normalcy in bilateral ties. But Beijing is unwilling to do anything in return. It provides close operational military support to Pakistan, and has refused to share hydrological data on the Brahmaputra with us. We are the one making concessions, including with considering early harvest on the border issue. Why? There has been no explanation from the @narendramodi government.
Let me guess…
What about Rajiv Gandhi?
What about National Herald?
What about x?
What about y?
Aapko nationalist corruption chahiye ya antinational corruption?
🚨 #ExpressInvestigation | Since he took oath as CM of Madhya Pradesh on December 13, 2023, Mohan Yadav’s family and their real estate companies have bought at least 137 plots, adding up to 168 acres, for Rs 45 crore, in zones most benefited by this infrastructure push, an investigation of land records by @mazoomdaar has found.
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I was waiting for this defense of the CM. Was wondering why has their PR team not brought in the caste angle. Sit down man, corruption is corruption irrespective of Jaat,Dharma and Gotra.
@AsArunScribeth Its about the comparison
When people keep saying good things about others and only bad things about us , it hurts the investments
We have all the right to show the other side too
I dont think it is too dificult to understand for an adult
Respected PM Adarniya Shri Narendra Modiji , you can clearly see everything is not okay with Nishant Kumar & he does have issues. Nishant Kumari s the health minister of Bihar because he is the nepo kid of Nitish Kumar ji. To accommodate Nitish ji you are risking lives sir!