In ‘The Age of Pandemics’, Tumbe specifically focuses on the period between 1817 to 1920, which witnessed nearly five percent of the mid-point global population —or 70 million people — being wiped out by pandemics. But for an epidemic to become a pandemic, both time and space are equally important, that is, the disease has to spread across a sufficiently …
On World Population Day, the buzzwords are “population” and “demographic dividend”. The Economic Survey 2019 tells us that India is set to witness a sharp slowdown in population growth in the next two decades, and that although the country as a whole will enjoy the “demographic dividend”, some states will start transitioning to an ageing society by the 2030s. “In …
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