WHAT PUNJAB’S CANCER TRAIN TELLS US ABOUT HEALTH, AGRICULTURE & RISK
Every night at 9:30, a twelve-coach train leaves Bathinda for Bikaner. Roughly a third of its passengers are cancer patients. This is not a story about a train. It is a story about what government data from the Central Ground Water Board, the Ministry of Agriculture, and the ICMR tells us about the relationship between…