Imagine a Journalist asking Sonam Wangchuk to quit fasting
Instead of Govt to remove Dharmendra Pradhan from the post due to Paper leak
This is what Yellow Journalism looks like
Nobody wants #SonamWangchuk to die. The person who can save his life today is Abhijit Dipte. Convince him to end his hunger strike. Take him to a hospital.
If Abhijit wants to make a point, he can start a hunger strike himself but spare Sonam.
Don’t turn an old man’s life into a political campaign.
An Open Letter to the Jantar Mantar protestors:
My dear young friends,
I address you today not as a politician or an MP, but as someone deeply troubled by what is happening to your generation of young Indians.
This is personal for me. I was born to a middle-class family: my father was a salaried newspaper employee, my mother a homemaker, with three children to educate on one income. For a family like ours, merit was not a slogan. Scholarships, fair examinations, honest results — these were the only way one salary could carry three children's dreams.
I went to school in Mumbai and Kolkata, to college here in Delhi, topped the University and earned admission into IIM — and chose instead to follow my passion for international affairs, in America, on a scholarship. Nothing was inherited; everything was earned by hard work and yes, Exams.
So I know that a fair, merit-based system is the only ladder for young people from lower and middle-income families to climb up. When that ladder is broken — papers leaked, examinations cancelled, trust destroyed — the children of the rich and powerful do not suffer. They have other ladders. It is your dreams, and your families' sacrifices (and tragically, in some homes, young lives themselves) that are betrayed.
To the young people gathered at Jantar Mantar, and those raising your voices peacefully across India: this country hears you. Your anger is not indiscipline — it is the anguish of a generation that did everything right and was still betrayed . You are not alone.
And to the millions of young Indians watching quietly: your generation is not a problem to be managed. You are the answer to India's future. Do not lose hope. This ladder will be rebuilt — by you, and by every Indian who stands with you.
To Shri Sonam Wangchuk-ji, my heartfelt appeal: please end your fast. You have awakened the conscience of the nation; that is what a fast is meant to do. India needs your voice for the long road ahead.
With Parliament in session again from Monday, we will have an opportunity to raise the students’ issues in the highest forum of our democracy. That’s where the problem should be addressed, not by fasting unto death. Please heed my plea.
And finally, to the Government: I respectfully urge you to reach out and engage in the dialogue our democracy owes its young citizens. That is not weakness; that is statesmanship.
DON'T LET SONAM WANGCHUK DIE
As an engineer, I condemn BJP brutal apathy. Sonam sir is risking his life at Jantar Mantar against a broken system, yet the state stays silent. I demand accountability. I won't watch this govt let him die!
#SaveSonamWangchuk@CJP_for_India
DON'T LET SONAM WANGCHUK DIE
As an engineer, I condemn BJP brutal apathy. Sonam sir is risking his life at Jantar Mantar against a broken system, yet the state stays silent. I demand accountability. I won't watch this govt let him die!
#SaveSonamWangchuk@CJP_for_India