Posted on July 24, 2026 by Kanchan Bains
Quick Answer: Sonam Wangchuk ended his 26-day hunger strike late Thursday night after meeting Union Ministers J.P. Nadda and Jitendra Singh, shortly after Modi’s statement on social media promising action on the paper leak issue. CJP has not called off the protest, though — the Jantar Mantar sit-in goes on until Dharmendra Pradhan resigns, and […]
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Posted on July 15, 2026 by Kanchan Bains
Eighteen days without food. Eight and a half kilograms gone. Blood pressure down to a worrying 109/70. These are the numbers attached to a 59-year-old man sitting at Jantar Mantar in New Delhi, and they are the only numbers anyone can point to with certainty. Everything else — what the government thinks, what it plans […]
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Posted on July 13, 2026 by Shivani Thakur
Sonam Wangchuk isn’t doing well. The climate activist and education reformer entered the 16th day of his hunger strike at Delhi’s Jantar Mantar on Monday, July 13, and doctors are seeing real trouble — falling blood pressure, sharp weight loss, the kind of numbers that would normally send anyone straight to a hospital bed. Yet […]
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