Rural Punjab is a time capsule: falling economy, rising religiosity, bad politics

Radicalism is back in Punjab, especially in zones where Sikhs form a large rural majority, and three of the five prominent political forces in this election are playing with this fire. ThePrint Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta reads #WritingsOnTheWall in poll-bound Punjab

Pictures by Praveen Jain

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