Under a Cloud   Over the decade of its rule, the Badal family has consolidated its control over some of Punjab’s most lucrative businesses, but has done little to stem some of the biggest crises facing the state—including an epidemic of drug addiction. As Punjab goes to polls, Hartosh Singh Bal reports, voters must choose between the family’s nepotism, and the unpromising alternatives presented by the Aam Aadmi Party and the Congress.   Also in this issue:   The cockeyed vision of RK Laxman; Raj Thackeray gains as the BJP’s ties with the Shiv Sena grow strained; Dear Zindagi’s radical break from Bollywood’s portrayal of mental illness; The Chinese state’s siege on Uyghur ways of worship; Looking for the Adivasi and Dalit presence in Indian children’s literature