Nights correspondent in the second-most populated nation of the world, India, pop. 1,210,193,422 (census. 2011) is Bangalore-based Shoba Narayan.
This week: the Rajasthan government has made the yoga practice of "surya namaskar" mandatory in all public schools; the latest tiger census shows an increase in the number of big cats; the imminent Delhi elections; and the new novel by Tamil author Perumal Murugan may be under attack for his disregard of caste.
