Population Provocations
Today is the World Population Day. Many leaders are going to make many speeches on the importance of population. After all we are the world’s No1 in Population! Given below are a few Population Provocations. Can you pick out the googly? 1. India’s population growth is the slowest it has been since Independence! Smell the coffee!! 2. It’s not children but the population of oldies that is growing the most rapidly in India! We need old age care not birth control to solve our population problems, if any. 3. People from our neighbouring countries are clamouring to come into India while patriotic Indians rarely move out of their home land! 4. Minority communities have had a rapid decline in their birth rates. To say that they have more children than before may be a lie! 5. India’s population looks to be growing...