“I dream of a day, while retaining our respective national identities, one can have breakfast in Amritsar, lunch in Lahore and dinner in Kabul. That is how my forefathers lived. That is how I want our grandchildren to live.”

Few in the region have the kind of cautious optimism Manmohan Singh had.

If India imprisoned the same share of population as Syria, it would have over 8 million prisoners, per @tortoisemedia.bsky.social

For perspective, Indian prisons have about half a million prisoners, with about 75% of them under trial.

45% households with TB patients in India spent more than 2.5 months’ income in direct and indirect costs of treatment, new study shows. The poorest, and those who were hospitalised were most likely to see higher costs: www.indiaspend.com/health/tb-ca...

This week, our stories explain how human activity has led to disastrous consequences: deaths in elephant conflicts in Jharkhand, dwindling snow leopard numbers in Ladakh, an Uttarakhand village that hasnt seen snow in 20yrs. Please subscribe to our newsletter & read open.substack.com/pub/indiaspe...