Michael Kugelman is the writer of Foreign Policy’s weekly South Asia Brief. He is the director of the South Asia Institute at the Wilson Center in Washington.
Three Pakistani farm workers stand in a wheat field, feeding piles of cut wheat into a mechanical thresher. One of the workers is resting on a bag of threshed wheat, preparing another empty bag. The sky overhead is blue and clear, and a ridge of trees is visible far in the distance.
Voters wait to cast their ballots outside a polling station during the third phase of voting for the India's general election in Sadashivapura village in Karnataka, India.
Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi walks down a flight of steps as he exits his plane upon arriving in Sri Lanka. Raisi is a man in his 60s with a white beard and glasses. He wears a black turban and a sheer black robe over an off-white shirt. The side of the plane is white, with stripes in the red and green of the Iranian flag.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi holds up a placard of a lotus, the symbol of the Bharatiya Janata Party, during a campaign road show in Chennai, India.
Workers sit on the floor of a warehouse that is covered with straw and massive piles of hundreds of oranges. Each worker has a basket and sorts oranges into it as they work.
About two dozen Indian Navy sailors stand in a row on a concrete or stone floor, dressed in camouflage uniforms and white hats and holding rifles. The soldiers at the ends and center of the line stand up straight while the ones between them kneel to the ground as they rehearse a demonstration, creating the appearance of a wave or ripple down the line.
People walk past market stalls under banners depicting candidates from different political parties ahead of the elections in Lahore, Pakistan, on Feb. 7.
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