Since about 2020, private equity funds and foreign investment companies have bought control of many of India's largest hospital chains, and of fertility, eye, dialysis and cancer chains. Studies abroad, mostly American, find prices rise under such owners and quality is mixed to worse. No Indian study has yet measured what this ownership does to patients.
India's nights are warming and humid heat is spreading, while official counts of heat deaths stay small beside every study of deaths above normal. Researchers, reporters and the state record who heat falls on, what it costs, and what protects people.
Official surveys count low unemployment, but young graduates wait years for salaried posts while millions take up farm work and unpaid family labour. Economists and surveys track who works, at what, and why secure jobs remain scarce.
India’s largest family business groups have spread into more industries since 2000, and the top 25 groups’ revenues grew from 11% to 15% of GDP even as concentration across the economy fell. Economists disagree on whether their size lets them raise prices. The record also follows India’s argument over monopoly since the 1960s, and how America, Japan and Korea dealt with big business.
In June 2026 the Supreme Court declared walking on a demarcated footpath a fundamental right, in a case that began with a five-year-old boy struck by a tanker on his way to school. The record follows the footpaths India never built, the pedestrians killed on its roads, and the walking that runs through pilgrimage, the freedom struggle and Vinoba Bhave's land tours.
Girls of the Banchhada community in Neemuch, Mandsaur and Ratlam are expected to enter sex work. A running record of family debt, the marriage market, jati panchayats, and the resistance led by community youth.
400 BCE2026
No photographs in this Long View, by design. Nobody in it should be identifiable.
