Every Phone. Every Emergency. India’s Cell Broadcast System Is a Life-Saving Architecture Nobody Knew Was Being Built
The Alert That Nobody Sent, But Everyone Received On the night of August 16, 2024, flash floods struck three villages in Himachal Pradesh’s Mandi district. Families were woken by the sound of water, not by a warning. Evacuation was reactive, not planned. Two people did not make it out. In the inquiry that followed, the…