Moments before sending this to the Magnet, I happened to see two or three news items in ‘Matters India’, a news service run by a veteran journalist and a dear friend, Jose Kavi. They speak about the arrest of a veteran Jesuit social activist, who has spent much of his life working for the rights of tribal people in north India. We will come back to him later. This article is about someone else.
It was amazing to learn that a person who was just forty-eight years old could touch the lives of so many thousands of people. When Trepan Singh Chauhan passed away on 13 August 2020, every newspaper and media organization in the State of Uttarakhand carried the news. Hundreds of people poured out their grief on social media.
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