In a city long accustomed to the quiet erosion of public trust, a single bureaucrat has reminded Mumbai that laws are only as meaningful as the will to enforce them. Since May, Maharashtra food safety commissioner Tukaram Mundhe has conducted more than three thousand inspections, suspending permits at major international chains and elite establishments alike — not through new legislation, but through the radical act of simply doing his job. His campaign has gone viral not because it is extraordinary by legal standards, but because it exposes how extraordinary basic accountability has become. I