The World with Richard Engel and Yalda Hakim
Jul 22, 2026 · 25 min · 11 segments
Tear gas, baton charges and hunger strikes. Thousands of young people have descended on New Delhi to demand the resignation of the education minister and a complete overhaul of the education system…
Neville Lazarus
Yalda HakimHost
There are thousands, tens of thousands of young people out in the streets of central Delhi protesting.
What happened was a guy called Sonam Wangchuk, who is a well-respected educationalist, he's a scientist, and he's lent his support to the Cockroach Party protest movement.
And then he decided to go for a hunger strike, sort of Gandhian way of, uh, of protesting.
With him, there were quite, uh, dozen, a- about a dozen students also went on hunger strike.
And on the 20th day, which was on Friday, these plain-clothes policemen, they swooped in at about 7:00 in the morning at the site, and they just picked him up and put him into an ambulance and rushed him off to a government hospital.
His family, his wife had, uh, protested, said she wants to take him out from there to take him to a hospital, uh, to a private hospital, which she was not allowed.
This then has just caught on sort of the imagination of, of people who came in then support of, of this whole movement.
There are thousands, tens of thousands of young people out in the streets of central Delhi protesting.
What happened was a guy called Sonam Wangchuk, who is a well-respected educationalist, he's a scientist, and he's lent his support to the Cockroach Party protest movement.
And then he decided to go for a hunger strike, sort of Gandhian way of, uh, of protesting.
With him, there were quite, uh, dozen, a- about a dozen students also went on hunger strike.
And on the 20th day, which was on Friday, these plain-clothes policemen, they swooped in at about 7:00 in the morning at the site, and they just picked him up and put him into an ambulance and rushed him off to a government hospital.
His family, his wife had, uh, protested, said she wants to take him out from there to take him to a hospital, uh, to a private hospital, which she was not allowed.
This then has just caught on sort of the imagination of, of people who came in then support of, of this whole movement.
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