Photo of the day: Democracy in the farthest corner

Voters queue to cast their ballots at a polling station during the fifth phase of voting in India's general election in Thiksey, a village in the Leh district of Ladakh, on May 20, 2024. India's election is conducted in seven phases over six weeks to ease the immense logistical burden of staging the democratic exercise in the world's most populous country.
Image: Tauseef Mustafa / AFP