Dear MEL Topic Readers,
Tryst with the future: Where India will be in another 70 years
Within a few years after the last world war ended, numbers of states became independent especially in the Asian and African Continents, and India was the largest one of all in terms of the size of population, democracy, and religion. Seven decades after the independence, the nation’s population is added by one billion and the numbers of voters increased by around 650 million. Some may think the subcontinent is large enough as a home for 1.3 billion people, but it is, in fact, the tenth most densely populated country, more densely populated than Japan.
There have been significant improvements in areas such as literacy, life expectancy, and economy. In the meantime, social, religious, cultural and even gender gap have been widening. For example, while having the largest Hindu believers, India is adding quite a few Muslim population as well and is expected to have the largest Muslim population in the world by the middle of the century.
Enjoy reading and learning what India is like now and what sort of challenges lie ahead.
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