AP Venkateswara Temple Stampede 2025: Why India Sees So Many

The explainer unpacks the AP Venkateswara Temple stampede and why crowd crushes recur in India: extreme pilgrim volumes, bottlenecks, weak planning, inadequate policing, vendor encroachments, weather, and misinformation. It outlines fixes for 2025, including real-time headcounts, one-way flows, stronger barricades, timed entries, CCTV and AI alerts, trained marshals, emergency drills, and clear accountability, plus crowd-science training and better exit signage.