I wonder what it will take for the government to acknowledge us.

In 96 hours, ninety four medical students have collapsed, as the hunger strike continues at Delhi. The reason that you have not been reading about it in the papers is that the media have been specifically forbidden from broadcasting this piece of news.

In Simla, another hunger strike continues, but the Himachal Pradesh government is also censoring the media.

At the North Bengal Medical College, the entire hospital has been brought to a standstill, and even the emergency labor room is closed. Parallel medical services are being provided on an out-patient basis. There are strikes at Burdwan, Patna, and Bhagalpore. Classes have been boycotted at the R.G.Kar, National, and Calcutta Medical Colleges.

There have been attacks against protesting medical students in Mumbai, Bangalore and Delhi. They were peaceful protesters. The police tried to disperse us at the Esplanade at our rally, but they couldn't, perhaps because we would not allow it to degenerate into violence.

The protests are gaining in intensity.
There is only silence from the government.

Medical students in Calcutta have organized a relay hunger strike. It starts today, at the National Medical College. I am joining it tomorrow.

Vive l'egalité!