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India suffers from severe impact of food inflation as nearly fifty percent of its earnings, an average household spends on food and more than sixty percent is spent by a poor on food. Thus, with the increase in food inflation the poverty level in India may sharply increase as the poor will be forced to spend more on food. Although India declared food as a legal right to its people by passing National Food Security Act (NFSA) on 5th of July, 2013 still its position in the Global Hunger Index 2021 was 101st out of 116 countries which is really poor. India's economic growth rate stood at 8.9% in 2021 as per World Bank national accounts data. Here we study the short run and long run relationship of India's food inflation in the post millennium era, with its Maternal Mortality Rate (MMR), Economic Growth Rate and Consumers Spending Growth Rate. Thus, the study is based on the time data series from 2001 to 2021. With the help of the Augmented Dickey-Fuller Test, the unit root test of the time series data used for the ARDL method has been done followed by CUSUM test for testing the stability of the ARDL long run form and bounds test.