Hello and welcome to the intelligence from The Economist.

I'm your host, Jason Palmer.

Every weekday, we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world.

Seventy-four years ago this week, the British Raj was split into two nations, India and Pakistan.

Then it was a colonizer's crude carving up along religious lines.

Plenty of those old tensions remain today, testing a relationship between two nuclear powers.

And if you're a fan of the sport of badminton,

you won't be surprised that Indonesia took home gold at this year's Olympics.

It almost always does.

We ask why the country is so mad for the sport and so good at it.

But first... Today, in Haiti, tropical depression, Grace, will bring rains that may cause flooding and mudslides.

That will complicate rescue efforts following a massive earthquake on Saturday.

Tonight, Haiti is reeling after being struck by a new disaster.

The quake rocked residents of southwestern Haiti into the streets.

Buildings and homes collapsed into rubble and dust.

So far, it's known that more than 1,400 people have died.

The tremor claimed many hospitals

that would have aided the injured and many churches that are at the center of Haiti's social

safety net. As aid trickles in from abroad, Haitians are trying to push their way into areas

of shelter guarded by police.

Haiti now fears what may come from above as it reels from what happened below,

at a time when the political situation on the ground represented its own disaster.

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