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India must set out an agenda of interest to the developing countries

Even as the world marked the daunting milestone of eight million population, China which was once preoccupied with the prospect of a runaway population is now fretting over its low number of childbirths. For more than three decades, from 1980 to 2015, the nation had enforced a strict one-child policy, however, now faces the looming prospect of an ageing population and low fertility rate. Watch | Gravitas: World population hits 8 Billion: Does India stand to gain?

Reservations were conceptualised as compensation for social discrimination, not economic deprivation, argues Deshpande, while discussing the apex court verdict.

It is a travesty that for the first time in India, the groups that have the highest proportion of below poverty line individuals are excluded from the Economically Weaker Section reservation that is, in principle, meant to target economic deprivation regardless of caste, says economist Ashwini Deshpande

The Wire has pulled down its stories on both Meta and Tek Fog. But judging from the way these stories were received and spread around the world, India’s liberal elite must now be confronted with the most basic question of all: does truth matter?