Hassan

[Maheshwer Peri @maheshperi]

An Open Letter to the Citizens of India:

Dear Proud Indian,

There is a man sitting at Jantar Mantar, in the heart of our capital, who has not eaten in over two weeks. His name is Sonam Wangchuk. You know his face. You cheered for him in a theatre once, when a character inspired by his life taught a fictional college that learning matters more than rote memorization, that curiosity matters more than fear. We hero-worshipped that story and made Aamir Khan a hero. And the real hero is in his brink, fasting, dying.

He is not fasting for himself. He sat down in solidarity with young people demanding accountability after this year’s exam paper leaks harmed futures of millions of students.

Millions. Think of that number not as a statistic but as millions of individual mornings: a student waking up early, preparing for months, walking into an exam hall trusting that the system in front of them was fair. That trust was broken. Wangchuk is asking, with his own body, that someone be held responsible for breaking it.

Eighteen days without food is not normal. It is a body slowly consuming itself. It is a heart working harder with less to work with. Reports already describe his health failing, his weight dropping sharply, other young protesters at his side collapsing and being carried to hospitals.

The government’s silence continues, as if a man’s life were a negotiating tactic rather than a life.
We cannot afford that silence. Education is not a side issue in this country. It is the only bet we are making on our future. India’s demographic dividend is at risk.

A leaked exam paper is not a clerical failure but a crack in the foundation of that dividend. Wangchuk understood this decades before most of us did, and he is paying for that understanding with his body right now.

So this is not a call to take a side in a political fight. It is a call to remember that a citizen’s conscience does not require permission from a party symbol. Ask about him. Say his name. Ask your representatives, your neighbours, your own families, why a man who has given his life to Indian education is entering his eighteenth day of hunger in the shadow of our Parliament while the country changes the channel.

A nation does not need to agree on every demand to agree that a human life should not be the price of being ignored. We owe him that much attention. We owe ourselves that much spine.
With hope that we are not too late.

A fellow citizen

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[Maheshwer Peri @maheshperi]

What NIRF and QS/THE rankings have done to Indian Education is similar to what entrance exams and coaching institutions have done to learning to students and the schooling system.
Students in coaching institutions are more focused on scores, numbers, and cracking the entrance exam. They are focused on rote learning, practising only important questions, and chapters. They are also told to leave a part of the syllabus as ‘choice’ questions. They know what to study and what to ignore and leave it in choice.
Similarly, Indian Universities now excessively focus on quantity of research, faculty etc. Good researchers now work to show numbers. They no longer are bothered about cutting edge research, quality and impactful research, commercializing patents etc. The way students are taught to crack an exam, score the most and be the topper is what annual institutional rankings(also leading to business benefits) have done to the entire education.

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I argue that @Wangchuk66 was NOT trying to bring about an Arab Spring-type revolution and NOT asking Ladakhis to self-immolate! Instead, he considers his dharma to sacrifice his life to protect #ladakh and his motherland, #India!
#freesonamwangchuk

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