Ludhiana grapples with rising diabetes cases among children

On a day meant to celebrate childhood, Ludhiana's pediatricians and endocrinologists offered a quieter, more sobering observation: diabetes, long considered a disease of adult life, is now arriving in children as young as six months old. The convergence of Children's Day and World Diabetes Day in this Punjab city was less a coincidence than a mirror held up to modern habits — poor diet, diminished movement, and the slow accumulation of choices that shape a body long before adulthood. Where one form of the disease resists prevention, the other does not, and it is in that space between fate and