NEW DELHI, May 6 -- Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge has stated the obvious. Muslims are not the only ones who produce in large numbers. Hindus also do so.

Prime Minister Modi and his spin doctors have been hoodwinking the nation by shouting from the rooftops and the Red Fort that India is on the threshold of becoming the third-largest economy in the world. Fudged data is used to create a veneer of prosperity. But on ground zero, we remain a country of poor people. And our investment, more than anything material, remained our children for a long time. Human resources were vital in those days, as are now. The more, the better was the motto of those days. Whether Hindu or Muslim, large families happened in the past because there were ...