India, Jan. 19 -- On 28 December 28, 2025, in the year's final Mann Ki Baat, Prime Minister (PM) Narendra Modi put a public face on a problem that is usually filed away as "clinical" or "technical": Antibiotics are increasingly failing against everyday infections such as pneumonia and urinary tract infections, in part because they are treated as a quick fix rather than a medicine that demands precision. The importance of that moment lies less in the warning and more in what it does to the politics of antimicrobial resistance (AMR). AMR is a classic collective-action failure. The benefit of misuse is immediate, the harm is deferred, and accountability is spread across prescribers, dispensers, patients, farms, manufacturers and regulators. ...