Umbilical Discord

An estimated 8,000 babies are born with neural defects every year in Rajasthan. Most of them die within a few months of birth. They are lucky. …

Grandma's recipes

Lonely twilight: Highest rate of seniors living alone in Tamil Nadu, Nagaland

5.7% senior citizens in India live alone

Nation without doctors

Shortage of medical staff is a major challenge to Kenya's healthcare sector

Third World women want smaller families

China

Crowded house

Vanishing 'green'

Follow up

Carry on doctor

Population can’t be ignored. It has to be part of the policy solution to our world’s problems

The longer we do nothing about population growth, the worse it gets

Not too many people

Demographers say world population will decline and one-fifth of it would be above 50 years by 2050

Male fertility crisis: What environmental contaminants have got to do with it

The way environmental factors affect fertility and cause effects over multiple generations may involve the epigenome of sperm

South Korea has the lowest fertility rate in the world — and that doesn’t bode well for its economy

The older people population is projected to be 20% of the country by 2025 and could reach an unprecedented and astoundingly high 46% in 2067

Kenya’s population: 5 key findings in the past 20 years of research

There are huge differences in health, education & other social outcomes among residents of urban informal settlements when compared to other …

The earth now has 8 billion humans; is the notion of a ‘finite planet’ a myth?

More than numbers, humanity needs to consider how resources are produced and distributed, what is consumed, by whom, and how much

Back after 70 years: Narendra Modi releases African cheetahs into Kuno enclosure on his 72nd birthday

Prime Minister asks wildlife aficionados to be ‘patient’ and ‘give the cheetahs some time’, thanks Namibia and South Africa

Population: Has bio-politics arrived in India?

A collection of articles which re-examine the population debate in the light of the BJP-ruled Assam and Uttar Pradesh proposing population-…

Overpopulation is not the source of all our ills

In these times of climate change, the world needs fresh ideas to get out of the logjam over whether population is a curse or a resource

Why time seems to go by more quickly as we get older

Apparently accelerated time travel is not a result of filling our adult lives with grown-up responsibilities. Research seems to show that …

India, China share global burden of mental illnesses

The overall population growth in India explains a greater proportion of the increase in mental, neurological and substance-use disorders

Centuries of scarcity

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Parched tip

Kanyakumari stands testimony to the fact that unchecked population growth and faulty land use can lead to water scarcity even in places wallowing …

An identity crisis for the South

The developing world needs to define what the South represents, for otherwise it risks its legitimacy as a negotiating bloc

Irrigation aid for India stopped

American aid for Indian irrigation projects has been withdrawn as focus shifts to other sectors.