Is India’s Population Problem a Muslim Problem?
Of all of the marks India is making on the global stage this year, from the moon landing to the G20 Summit, not least of it all is India becoming the most populous country in the world.
Of all of the marks India is making on the global stage this year, from the moon landing to the G20 Summit, not least of it all is India becoming the most populous country in the world. But crossing China's population in absolute numbers is not what makes this problem threatening. What makes it threatening is the communal propaganda around it. India’s population problem in the mainstream public discourse is reengineered as a ‘Muslim’ problem.
In this video we delve into how much of this propaganda stands the scrutiny of facts and figures. And then redirect the conversation to what the population problem really means for India and how we can contextualise it in a global frame of reference.
What is the relationship between colonialism and the demographic dread in India? How are global overpopulation narratives biased against vulnerable groups? What does it mean to redirect the conversation of population control to unequal distribution of resources? And should India be working on population control or population management?