India is often cited as a land of paradoxes. This is certainly true when it comes to right to food and food security. Despite a decline in poverty and green revolution, on the one hand almost twenty-four per cent of its people are still food insecure and one half of its children malnourished in one way or another and Ironically on the other hand it has a million tonnes of food grain buffer stocks through government procurement. No doubt through various policies and programmes the government is trying to be food secure at household level. Regardless of these measures, food insecurity is a gigantic problem in India. Moreover, in the present scenario increased food prices, shrinkage of area under food grains and escalating food subsidy are the major concerns with regards to implementation of right to food. The right to food is operational in India on the basis of India’s Constitution and of her obligations under International human rights law. Under these International obligations a framework law has been developed and brought into force in India recently. But the legal framework and the means of producing sufficient food does not imply that food is actually secured for everyone, what it requires is the political and societal will of various stakeholders to overcome the discriminatory situation in order to give the right to food a real meaning. Keeping this in view, the present study analyzes the food security scenario and the issues and challenges that are being faced while implementing the right to food in India.