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Five months since the wrestlers started their protest and 20 months of Prime Minister Narendra Modi knowing about the sexual abuse, we are nowhere close to a solution.
Narendra Modi knew.
Of all the wrenching stories that we saw and heard in the tear-glazed month of May, this is the hardest to process, to wrap our minds around: That the Prime Minister allegedly knew of systemic sexual abuse in the Wrestling Federation of India and, particularly, at the hands of its strongman president Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh.
According to detailed witness testimony recorded by the Delhi police in front of a magistrate, Modi knew, and promised action, as far back as August 2021.
When the distraught wrestlers began their protests in January this year, Modi knew. …
Influence cannot be manufactured through diaspora networks, carefully branded events or political donations. It requires honesty and credibility.
The framework reads less like an agreement between partners and more like a probation order written by the stronger side.
The year began with the wrestlers’ tears of anger and frustration as they protested institutional inaction against the then WFI president, and it ended with their tears of defeat and despair as the system answered their year-long protests with an upraised middle finger.
