Fertility
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Rethinking privilege in the 21st-century
Prompted by a Communist academic’s attack on J. D. Vance over his writing on fertility, the author notes Vance’s mixed-race son and that his Indian American wife grew up in…
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Vital stats in South Asia
Shares vital statistics for South Asia, noting that Pakistan and Bangladesh have diverged and puzzling over Bangladesh’s high adolescent fertility, while warning that India’s averages hide regional variation.
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The end of the Kalash is nigh
The author argues that the end of the Kalash is near, since educated young women are reportedly converting to Islam and their high fertility can no longer offset conversions, and…
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Children’s Day
Marking Children’s Day in India, argues that societies fretting about being ‘outbred’ need a cultural, not legal, approach to child-rearing, with couples securing their careers first.
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The Myth of Muslim Fecundity?
Using Ambedkar’s book on Pakistan and 1935 figures for Sindh and Bengal, the author argues non-Muslim population shares have held up despite poorer Muslim minorities, and that the ‘myth of…
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Will the last Parsi to die please blow out the sacred fire?
Defending the Jiyo Parsi campaign to lift the Parsi birth rate against a liberal article likening it to a khap panchayat, the author argues descendants of Persia’s persecuted Zoroastrians should…
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India = Nigeria + Italy in terms of fertility
Using district-level data, argues that comparing India with Pakistan and Bangladesh is a major error, since parts of the northern Hindi belt and Northeast have Nigeria-like fertility of five to…
