Every quarter leaves behind evidence. Someone has to gather it. Someone has to preserve it. Someone has to make sure it isn’t forgotten.
Sometimes, it takes the form of reports and research. But, what if it also lives in a worker’s testimony, a mural painted on Labour Day, a rap song, a public installation, or a city choosing to laugh at the absurdities it has quietly learned to live with?
Witness 2.26 captures a quarter where communities faced the climate crisis and document it as evidence. Bengaluru Rising transformed April Fool’s Day into a city-wide conversation about broken urban planning, drawing national attention to the everyday frustrations people have quietly learned to accept. In Delhi, residents, workers, artists, researchers, and allies built a growing body of evidence on extreme heat through public murals, neighbourhood heat mapping, community diaries, exhibitions, music, and the Standing the Heat report. Together, these efforts helped shift the conversation from temperatures and weather forecasts to the lived realities of climate change.
This edition also follows the wider stories shaping our work, from landmark court judgments on walkability and urban forests to growing momentum for clean air, climate accountability, and a just transition. It is a record of a quarter that asked a simple question: what happens when communities begin building the evidence needed to shape the future they deserve?
