This week on The India Report: a new PUDR report counts 607 dead across 27 months of Operation Kagaar in Bastar, most of it outside the Supreme Court's own rules for encounter killings, and a peace offer the government turned down. Then, the BJP spent 30 years using Jaswant Singh Khalra's murder as a weapon against Congress, until a film about him actually got made, streamed for two days, and vanished. And finally, how a ceasefire collapsing 4,000 km away near the Strait of Hormuz already shows up in the Sensex, the rupee, and your cooking gas cylinder.Three stories, one thread: what a state decides to count, remember, and price in, and what it doesn't.

This week on The India Report: MGNREGA has quietly been replaced by VB-G RAM G, with higher wages and more guaranteed days on paper, but a new funding split that could hit UP and Bihar's tightest budgets hardest. Meta has been summoned by the government after Instagram approved ads promoting child sexual abuse material, raising hard questions about whether its safety systems ever really worked. And PM Modi's decision to skip Ayatollah Khamenei's funeral, sending a junior minister while Pakistan's PM attended in person, reveals a careful hedge between India's ties to Iran and its growing closeness with Israel and the Gulf.

This week on our weekly show “The India Report,” we bring together three stories that, at first glance, seem to have nothing in common. One concerns citizenship documents. Another concerns police shootings. The third concerns alleged theft inside one of the most important religious institutions in the country. Although these stories come from very different parts of public life, they all point to the same fundamental question about modern India. What happens when institutions ask citizens to place their trust in them, but the procedures meant to inspire that trust appear uncertain, inconsistent or inadequate?