I think most people have watched 3 Idiots, and that’s the person on whom the movie is based, so this is fucking serious when the state has failed to this stage that this guy has to go on hunger strike for justice for the students who died because the education system has failed.
#SOS: To every Indian,
Things are looking grimmer by the day.
I don’t know how much longer Sonam sir can hold on. He keeps telling us he can. But those of us sitting beside him are terribly worried.
This is a man who could have chosen a life of comfort and recognition. Instead, the recipient of a Ramon Magsaysay Award, an honour equivalent to the Nobel Prize, is putting his own life at risk for the future of our children, the young, and this country. He sits for those dead students murdered by a broken, corrupt education system. He is sacrificing his body and maybe his life for a greater cause.
It makes me think what does it say about US that a son of India, who brought us such great honour before the world, has to STARVE himself to death simply to be heard by his OWN government?
This is not my idea of India. This is not India!
Somewhere along the way, we stopped feeling. We began to accept silence when there should have been outrage, indifference where there should have been compassion. We have become spectators to suffering. We have convinced ourselves that someone ELSE will speak, someone ELSE will act.
I have no words left.
I am sorry sir.
We are failing you. We are failing you by allowing a nation to reach a point where a man of your integrity and stature must gamble with his own life just to make those in power LISTEN. We are failing you because we normalised arrogance over empathy. We normalised power over compassion. And we normalised indifference over conscience.
July 20 is our last attempt to save you.
If we cannot stand up now, history will not ask what Sonam Wangchuk did for India. It will ask what India did when Sonam Wangchuk needed her.
A failure by leaders to deliver on implied or explicit promises to the public has the potential to provoke a crisis of legitimacy for a government; when emerging technologies that give rise to wealth do not advance the broader public interest, trouble often follows. - J. Habermas
begin.
begin badly. begin afraid. begin with the wrong tools and the wrong words and the wrong hour of the morning. begin anyway. because the carpenter’s hands were not ready when he built his first table - they were simply willing. and willingness, in the economy of a life, is worth more than talent and more than timing and more than any condition the mind invents to delay the moment when the body must finally do what it has always known it was built to do.
I will say it again, in case the first one was absorbed by the part of you that is already composing a reason to wait:
begin.
with the urgency your life deserves.
Cristiano Ronaldo is extending his stay in Toronto following Portugal’s dramatic victory over Croatia.
Portugal will hold another public training session at Centennial Park on Friday, July 4, at 11:00 a.m., giving fans another chance to catch Ronaldo and the squad in action 🇵🇹
Toronto, you made an impression 🇨🇦
Cristiano Ronaldo is extending his stay in Toronto following Portugal’s dramatic victory over Croatia.
Portugal will hold another public training session at Centennial Park on Friday, July 4, at 11:00 a.m., giving fans another chance to catch Ronaldo and the squad in action 🇵🇹
Toronto, you made an impression 🇨🇦