-The Telegraph New Delhi: The Supreme Court today asked the Centre to explain its failure to implement the previous government's flagship food security programme, aimed at providing cheap grains to two-thirds of the Population with a special focus on children and pregnant and lactating women. The scheme, estimated to cost Rs 1.25 lakh crore a year, was launched in 2013 and was to come into force from July last year. But the...
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Bend it like Bhalla -Tony Joseph
-The Indian Express On census, Christians and conversions, Surjit Bhalla has tortured his data to make it say what he wants to hear. Last week, Surjit S. Bhalla wrote a piece in The Indian Express titled ‘Census, Christians, Conversions’. After going over well-trodden ground on what the recently released Census 2011 figures meant, he came to the crux of the matter as he saw it: Why hasn’t the Christian Population fallen...
More »Going the natural way -Deepika Nidige
-Deccan Herald Organic food in India has slowly made its way into more households over the last decade. More and more people are embracing the concept of safe food, having realised the benefits that come along with it. So, with the demand seeing a steady rise, how does the supply scene fare comparatively? Well, in keeping with the changing times and needs of consumers, farming too is seeing a shift towards...
More »Four out of five Indians will still be Hindu even when Muslim Population peaks -Sachin Mampatta
-Livemint.com Current growth trends if they persist show that India’s Population will peak in 2060s Fears of a rising Muslim Population numerically overwhelming India’s Hindu majority seem alarmist and overdone any way you look at it. Indeed, if the growth rates trends seen from the latest census data sustain, Muslims may actually account for a lower proportion of India’s Population than at their peak in 2011. The 2011 census puts the Muslim...
More »Myth of Muslim growth -Abusaleh Shariff
-The Indian Express Once again, the debate on census Population data on religion misses the point. With the release of the Census 2011 data on religion and misleading reports in the media, the growth of the Muslim Population has become the focus of the debate once again. Almost 10 years ago, in 2004, a similar but sharper controversy had erupted when the government released the Census 2001 data on religion. There...
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