Freedom fighters · CJP protest 2026 · June 2026–
The Jantar Mantar hunger strikers
Hamad, Ameen Amitoj, Manish Kumar and the AISF and KYS activists who fasted for weeks at Jantar Mantar without a single camera calling them by name.
Six AISA students began the indefinite hunger strike with Sonam Wangchuk on 28 June. Neha Bora, Ameen Amitoj and Manish Kumar, plus an independent student named Hamad, were still fasting past day 21.
Four All India Students' Federation activists, Gulab Dan, Pratibha, Aniketh Madke and Bittu, joined. Two Krantikari Yuva Sangathan activists began fasting after Wangchuk was taken away, calling it repression of the right to protest.
Coverage needs one face. Movements run on the ones behind it. If a stranger goes hungry for three weeks so a paper leak gets punished, their name belongs somewhere permanent.
Why on this wall
The unnamed body of the protest. Weeks without food, almost no headlines.