Debt and distress in rural India


Lost love: Shantabai’s husband Vinod, a cotton farmer, committed suicide ten years ago. But she had no time to mourn and returned to work the day after his death. - Photos by Team Ceritalah

PAKISTAN is an existential threat to India, right? Wrong.

With a population just one-quarter the size of its fraternal twin, an imploding economy and a hopelessly dysfunctional political system, Pakistan is little more than a strategic challenge or geopolitical footnote.

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