India
oi-Madhuri Adnal
Bengaluru, Mar 14: Climate activist Disha Ravi, who was arrested in connection with allegedly being involved in sharing a “toolkit” on social media related to the farmers’ protest and released on bail later, wondered on Saturday when it became a crime to think of sustenance on earth.
“Locked in my cell, I wondered when it became a crime to think the most basic elements of sustenance on this planet were as much mine as theirs,” the 22-year-old activist from Bengaluru said in her four-page statement posted on Twitter.
Wondering why were millions paying the ultimate price for the greed of a few hundred, Ravi said the human race would be inching closer to its own expiry “if we did not act in time to stop the endless consumption and greed.”
The activist claimed during her arrest her autonomy was violated and her photographs were splashed all over the news.
“My actions were pronounced…