A panic over India's fertility-rate drop is unwarranted, despite concerns in aging Western and East Asian nations. The author critiques global reasons like high costs, women's education, smartphone use, and social media for declining births. He argues India, with its large, diverse, and internally migrating population, faces no demographic crisis. Instead of urging women to have more children—an often ineffective policy—India should prioritize job creation, women's empowerment, better healthcare, and pensions. Applying rich-world demographic anxieties to India, whose population is still growing, is deemed misguided and a distraction from its real socioeconomic challenges.