Indians need to rejoice. Seems that mortality in children under five has dropped from 12.5 million in 1990 to 8.8 million in 2008. This news on page 4. On page 3 picture of a burnt out car with a man holding a long stick kicking the burnt out shell in fury. This is in retaliation to the police who were trying to stop illegal construction in Ghaziabad. Apparently there are 388 illegal colonies in Ghaziabad, just 20 km from Delhi, 188 of them built since 2006. Both these news items relate to the unchecked rise in population in India. While middle and upper classes restrict the number of children to one or two, poor people are going on breeding without any regard for the damage they are doing to the country. They know that since they have the numbers to vote in any scoundrel they are free to beg anywhere, occupy public land, poach rare animals or even steal cars all in the name of poverty. One lady who would proudly proclaim her bleeding heart for the poor wrote an article moaning the decreasing numbers of tigers due to poaching. She would like to do to the poachers what they do to the tigers i.e. chop off their parts and yet she would be enraged if anyone suggested forcing the poor to have few children as they do in China. The clever poor are delighted to take advantage of such stupidity and continue to produce legions of babies with hands outstretched as beggars from birth. Already we are running out of farmland. By 2050 when the population reaches 1.5 billion there will be mass starvation. Will people survive by eating each other?