Sonam Wangchuk has now lost 8.2 kilograms. His blood glucose has dropped to 67 mg/dL. He has been on a hunger strike at Jantar Mantar since June 28, and the protest around him is in its fourth week. When people begged him to stop, he had a one-line answer: “Don't ask me to end my fast. Ask the government why they won’t even have a dialogue.”
That is a fair question to put to the government. But it is worth putting an equally uncomfortable one to the Cockroach Janta Party (CJP), the movement Wangchuk has lent his fast to: what, exactly, have you done to make his suffering count?
