CJP Protest, 6 Soldiers Martyred in Operation Sindoor & Rising Inflation

By Asad Ashraf

July 22, 2026

Sonam Wangchuk is in a Hospital, refusing fluids, refusing medication, twenty days into a hunger strike that began at Jantar Mantar. Today marks 25th day of his hunger strike. His wife says the fast continues even from a hospital bed. This report traces how a protest over an education minister's resignation turned into a fight over who controls a person's own body. A year after Operation Sindoor, six names have appeared on the National War Memorial, Roll of Honour. Rajnath Singh told Parliament no Indian soldier was harmed during the operation. Congress has now filed a privilege motion, asking how six families grieved privately for a year while the official record said something else.

This is a story about who decides when the truth reaches the public, and when. Retail inflation has crossed the RBI's target for the first time in seventeen months. Tomatoes up nearly 32 percent, ginger up more than 50 percent, wholesale inflation at 9.87 percent. We look at why the same inflation figure lands very differently depending on how much of your income goes on food, and why a farmer's ruined crop near Nashik shows up on a dinner table in Delhi.

A hunger strike, a war memorial, a grocery bill. All three ask the same question: who gets to decide, and who lives with the consequences.

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