Jammu, June 24 -- "We are not inheriting the Earth from our ancestors; we are borrowing it from our children." - Native American Proverb

The ticking has already begun. Not of a clock.but of a demographic bomb quietly expanding beneath the feet of humanity. Every second, somewhere in the world, more people are being added to a planet whose resources are already under tremendous stress. For decades, population was celebrated as strength- a young workforce, a massive market and a growing economy. But today, the same strength is slowly transforming into one of the greatest threats to humanity's future. India alone has crossed nearly 1.47 billion people and stands as the world's most populated nation, overtaking China. The world population it...