The sun had not yet climbed over the horizon when the first groups of walkers began to gather in the coastal village of Mwabungo, in Kwale County’s Msambweni Sub-County. They came in tracksuits and rubber shoes, some wrapped in sweaters against the cold wind blowing in from the Indian Ocean, all of them answering an unusual invitation: a ten-kilometre walk for a cause that few people in the area fully understood. Inside the National Biosafety Authority, the walk had a simple but urgent mission. For years, genetically modified organisms, or GMOs, have been a source of deep confusion and suspicion…

It began not with dust or crashing concrete, but with a ring. On an otherwise unremarkable Tuesday afternoon, the Delhi Fire Services control room received a call that would send engines racing through the streets of Maidan Garhi. The time was 2:51 pm, and the voice on the other end delivered a message that no city ever wants to hear: a house had collapsed in Adhikari Mohalla. In that instant, the ordinary machinery of a working day was shattered. Dispatchers alerted police, firefighters grabbed helmets, officers scrambled into vehicles, and the first sirens began to wail. But here is the…