Delhi University’s campus is never quiet, but in the weeks before the Delhi University Students Union (DUSU) elections, it becomes something more than a place of lectures and examinations. It turns into a political theatre, a space where posters cover every wall, where students gather in small groups to debate, and where conversations in canteens drift inevitably toward one topic: who will lead the students’ union. The stakes are high because DUSU is not just any student body. It is one of the most prestigious and closely watched student organisations in the country, and the contest for its four offices…

1. The 2022 infant formula crisis was one of those rare national emergencies that struck at the most intimate and vulnerable moment of family life. It was not a storm, a blackout, or a supply-chain snag that people could shrug off. It was a frantic, sleepless search for food for babies who could not eat anything else. Parents drove for hours, dismantled their routines, rationed precious cans, and begged strangers online for a scoop of Similac. Behind that panic was a terrifying truth: something had gone profoundly wrong in a facility trusted to feed the youngest and most fragile among…