Madhya Pradesh Leads in Missing Women and Girls; Smog isn’t Just About Farmers ― We Breathe the Soot of Our Own Ecological Sins

Panchjanya broods upon foreign hand, in Khobragade-like case, India rejects AU jurisdiction, govt denies 360-degree appraisal system, Lotus enters India with hyper-SUV, BRS falls off campaign trail

A newsletter from The Wire | Founded by MK Venu, Seema Chishti, Siddharth Varadarajan, Sushant Singh, Sidharth Bhatia and Tanweer Alam | Contributing writer: Kalrav Joshi, with additional inputs by Anirudh SK | Editor: Pratik Kanjilal

---

Snapshot of the day

November 10, 2023

Pratik Kanjilal

More women and girls go missing in Madhya Pradesh than in any other state, says The Quint. Between 2019 and 2021, nearly 2 lakh women and girls went missing from Madhya Pradesh, as per National Crime Records Bureau data. In 2022, 32 children went missing every day, of which 24 were girls (75%), as per an RTI report by Child Rights and You (CRY). Distress migration, driven by lack of job opportunities, climate change, excessive poverty, poor education, limited freedoms, social biases and hunger ― and trafficking, of course. 

“At first, all I see is their lowered eyes. Big black masks hide Glory and Mercy’s faces and scarves cover their foreheads. The two Kuki-Zomi women do not want to be seen. But they want to be heard.”