thar

On a warm May evening in 2022, Sidhu Moose Wala was taking his black Mahindra Thar SUV for its usual spin through dusty lanes near his village in the northern Indian state of Punjab when, within minutes, two cars began tailing him.

There’s still gold in them thar hills.

Hubbard attributed the disease to “an intense desire to ‘git thar’ and an awful feeling that you cannot.”

This process destabilizes the jet stream and changes storm tracks and wind patterns over the major sources of dust in West and South Asia -- namely the Arabian Peninsula and the Thar Desert between India and Pakistan.

The country has a land area of more than a million square miles, with people in megacities, scattered throughout the Himalayas, in the Thar Desert, inside forests and along the Ganges.