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Pregnant pause: India’s slumping fertility

05.06.2026
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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 chief
  • Sam Colbert, senior series producer, Economist Podcasts
  • Jon Fasman, senior culture correspondent
  • Jason Palmer, co-host of “The Intelligence”

Topics covered: 

  • India, fertility rates, global population
  • vegan cheese
  • Sonny Rollins, jazz

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