Pregnant pause: India’s slumping fertility
05 June 2026

Pregnant pause: India’s slumping fertility

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After decades of overpopulation worries, the country now has the opposite concern. We examine India’s unusual demographic turn, and why it is a wider warning to the world. Vegan substitutes have broadly improved in recent years—so why is there no good vegan cheese? And remembering Sonny Rollins, an absolute colossus of the saxophone. 


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Guests and host:

    Tom Sasse, South Asia bureau chiefSam Colbert, senior series producer, Economist PodcastsJon Fasman, senior culture correspondentJason Palmer, co-host of “The Intelligence”


Topics covered: 

    India, fertility rates, global populationvegan cheeseSonny Rollins, jazz


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