The world is a deeply unequal entity. Income and wealth distributions are terribly skewed in favour of a tiny minority of the super rich. Statistics have, time and again, provided evidence of the deep...

Recent reports suggest that India has entered a long period of demographic dividend. This is a moment in an economy when the working-age population, aged between 15 and 64 years, becomes larger than t...

Let us begin from the end. Schools are supposed to prepare children to be equipped for the future. Let us understand this in real-time calculation: we are trying to prepare a student entering Class I ...

Narendra Modi's mention of 'reckless population explosion' in his Independence Day address has led to speculation that the government may now want to bring a law on population regulation.“Population...

Sir — The French president, Emmanuel Macron, recently inaugurated a war memorial for soldiers who lost their lives fighting overseas. Interestingly, the bronze sculpture — of six soldiers carrying...