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A bird's eye view of a corrugated tin roof house, center in red, of the Angh, or tribal chief, which lies both in Myanmar and India, as seen from Longwa village, India, Friday, Dec. 13, 2024. (AP Photo/Anupam Nath)
In northeast India, a border fence could cut through villages, houses and lives
An international border fence may soon split the village of Longwa in two. In the extreme northeast of India live the Nagas, an indigenous people whose traditional land stretches into Myanmar.
 
Rajiv Sikri, left, and Subodh Jain take a morning walk in Lodhi Gardens in New Delhi, India, Friday, Nov. 15, 2024. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)
Park regulars in New Delhi’s Lodhi Garden say toxic pollution levels won’t force them out
Many of the regulars at Lodhi Garden in New Delhi, one of the world’s most polluted cities, say they won’t let rising pollution levels deter their daily visits.
 
Takosangba Pongen, 27, a blind pianist, performs at a shopping mall during the two-day Brillante Piano Festival in Bengaluru, India, Sunday, Sept. 29, 2024. (AP Photo/Aijaz Rahi)
AP PHOTOS: A blind pianist from Nagaland says music is ‘one thing that has kept me alive’
“Playing the piano transports me to another dimension.
 
Polling officers, left to right, Dekule Kapfo, 34, Neke W Konyak, 29, Neichutuonuo Yhome, 27, and Nukutholu Nienu, 44, prepare election related paperwork on the eve of polling in Chedema village, in the northeastern Indian state of Nagaland, Thursday, April 18, 2024. (AP Photo/Yirmiyan Arthur)
AP PHOTOS: For the world’s largest democratic exercise, one village’s polling officers are all women
The officers at the polling station in Chedema village in India’s tiny mountain state of Nagaland had arrived the day before, all of them women on electoral duty for the first time. The four women surveyed the polling station, secured the perimeter and started on the tedious paperwork involved with
 
AP Photos: Indian mother prays to ‘bleeding goddess’ for son
Her days are spent caring for him — feeding him, taking him to the toilet, bathing him, keeping him hydrated.