Every farmer’s grievance/ crop failure is a wound the nation must feel. The ongoing review of Paraquat Dichloride and Glyphosate, prompted by the reports of severe poisoning in Telangana, deserves both compassion and clear and rational scientific reasoning.
Of its estimated 11.3 million residents in 2025, more than 10 million are expatriates, accounting for roughly 88-89% of the total population.
On the one hand, is the glory: A phone in every Indian hand with a massive subscriber base of 1,203.69 million. On the other hand, is the goriness of an unequal populace with more than 680 million people remaining offline across India (early 2024 numbers), making India “home to the world’s largest ‘unconnected’ population.”
For the past few years we have been constantly hearing the phrase ‘demographic dividend’ in the speeches and utterances of…
