ON July 20, 2026, lakhs of students and young people assembled at Jantar Mantar in central Delhi under the banner of the Cockroach Janta Party and Left student organisations - SFI, AISA and AISF, demanding accountability for the recurring NEET paper leaks that have driven dozens of students to suicide. The state's visible response was brutal enough: lathi charges, tear gas grenades fired directly into dense crowds, and plastic pellet rounds that left over 180 protesters injured and at least 42 hospitalised with compound fractures and pellet lacerations.

ON MAY 16, 2026, the São Paulo bookshop of Expressão Popular, the publishing house of Brazil's Landless Workers' Movement (MST), was packed with farmers, agroecology technicians and movement organisers. They had gathered for the launch of IARAA, an artificial intelligence platform for agrarian reform and agroecology. The tool was not built by a technology corporation.

JACOB HELBERG, the US Under Secretary of State for Economic Affairs and the architect of the Pax Silica initiative, published a manifesto on June 23 attacking the United Nations' vision of "digital sovereignty".

THERE is a myth that ostriches bury their heads in the sand when threatened. The United States is like the mythical ostrich in its response to the current Ebola outbreak. The hantavirus outbreak aboard a cruise ship was like a dress rehearsal. It showed the consequences of dismantling global pandemic preparedness. That rehearsal is over. The far more dangerous Ebola act has begun, and the curtain has risen in Central Africa.

WHEN the Union Ministry of Health released the National Family Health Survey (NFHS)-6 fact sheets only in May 2026, based on data collected during 2023-24, the godi media headlines celebrated gains in child nutrition and maternal care. But public health experts soon asked: where had the data gone? Compared to NFHS-5 (2019-21), which had 131 key indicators, the latest fact sheet contains only 101.