From the podium of a climate conference to the corridors of a university hostel, India this week confronted the distance between responsibility and consequence — who bears the burden of a warming world, who is protected within institutions meant to uplift, and who is free to love without fear. Prime Minister Modi challenged the moral arithmetic of global emissions accountability, even as a young Dalit student's death at IIT Bombay laid bare the violence that can hide inside elite spaces, and a court in Uttar Pradesh quietly affirmed that dignity does not require social consensus to deserve pro
Modi defends India's climate record as developing nations face unfair emissions blame
20-year-old IIT Bombay student Sahil Wakode died by suicide following alleged sustained caste-based harassment by professor; third student death by suicide at institute in 2026.