The government needs to make clear what its intentions are – to grant Ladakh’s legitimate demands, or keep dragging its feet, risking further antagonising an already infuriated population?

We express strong concern about the use of armed force by the local administration that led to the loss of four people and left several dozen injured. We also protest the arrest of Gandhian educationist and activist, Sonam Wangchuk

People of Ladakh demand Constitutional measures enabling them to protect their land, culture, environment and the economic interests.

We strongly support the demand by the people of Ladakh, that the Government of India include Ladakh in the Sixth Schedule of the Indian Constitution and accord it statehood

Dissent and democracy go together. We must rethink, accept and create space for youth activism and strengthen legal & democratic institutions

... the vocabulary it developed, in homespun idiom, of love as resistance, and of confident equal citizenship.

जनसुनवाई भ्रष्टाचार के खिलाफ और लोगों के अधिकारों की रक्षा करने में मददगार साबित हुई है

...about raising awareness re. the Constitution and Constitutional values of liberty, equality, fraternity, pluralism and secularism.

In these seven decades, we should have worked towards building power at village level, so that villagers are the local key decision-makers.