NEW DELHI, Jan. 2 -- There are some interesting developments in progress within India. Extreme poverty is all but gone and by 2025 the prediction is that fewer than 1% of the population will be at that level of income. With the total fertility rate nearing replacement rate, population growth rate has slowed sharply and is expected to fall below 1% per annum by 2025, with several states already showing negative rates of growth. Total calorie consumption has fallen and there are now consistent food surpluses in the country. While each of these statistics is individually remarkable, taken together they paint a picture that is very different from the one that India woke up to on August 15, 1947. The India of naked, hungry, and homeless, teeming millions is all but gone forever, as are the fears of Professor Malthus, one of the earliest teachers of Indian civil servants at the East India Company College in Hertfordshire. As India looks ahead and prepares itself for the next decade, it will need to make room for this new India, and to think very differently than it has in the past....