In this long awaited new book Growign Old in India: Voices Reveal, Statistics Speak Ashish Bose, world -wide well-known economist and demographer along with Mala Kapur Shankardass, Internationally reputed expert on Ageing Studies, use the voices of oder people, government officals, United Nationis Representatives, Voluntary sector workers and a whole range of statistics as part of research, projections and available data from documented sources, cnesus data , etc., to provide insights into the experiecne of gtrowing old in a country with an increasing ageing population, limited socia security benefits and changing social structure affecting individuals, families and society at large.The authors, with their expertise in the field of demography, sociology, gerontology and policy analysis, bring forth different dimensions of ageing and response at the national and international level, covering a span of over two decades. With the focus on the First World assembly on Ageing at Vienna in 1982 to the Second held at Madrid in 2002, Bose and Shankardass bring to the readers in a significant manner the plans, programmes, feelings, and thoughts on ageing, which will dominate the 21st century. About Author : Professor Ashish Bose was Head of the Population Research Centre, Institute of Economic Growth and subsequently, Jawaharlal Nehru Fellow attached to Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU). His major areas of specialisation include census methodology, urbanisation, migration and population policy. He has served as United Nations Consultant/Resource Person, from time to time , all over the world.He was a member of the National Commission on Urbanisation and also the Exper Group on Population Policy headed by Dr. M.S. Swaminathan, which submitted its repor tto the Prime Minister in 1994. He was a member of Registrar General's Technical Group on Population Projections (1996).Currently, he is Honorary Professor, Institute of Economic Growth, member of Independent Commission on Health in India.Mala Kapur Shankardass is presently Reader in Sociology in Maitreyi College, University of Delhi. She has Post-Doctoral specialization in Gerontology from East-West Centre, Hawaii and United Nations International Institute of Ageing, Malta. She consults for World Health Organization, United Nationa and various other international and national agencies. She had the privilege of being invited to make presentatiosn at the United Nations General Assembly in 1999 and at the World Assembly on Ageing in Madrid, Spain in 2002. Contents : ForewordPrefaceAcknowledgementsIntroductionVoices RevealPolicy InterventionsStatistics Speaks: Statistical Profile of the Elderly in IndiaSources of DataList of FiguresList of Tables