 I want you to be comfortable. I'm here to be your friend. I wanted to meet you in your university. But the home minister of India gave an order to the owner of your university that you dare allow this conversation. When you talk about salt and oil, books and education, who will not get education, who will not get a job, who will not get a job, if everything has been decided by the politics, let's decide. I want to know that thing. How can you manage the pressures and the criticism? Can you come here a second? Yes, sir. Well, thank you for coming here. It's always interesting for me to come to the northeast. Every day I learn and I see new things when I come here. So I'm here to answer your questions. So I'd like you to start by, you know, what you're feeling. My name is Ankit. I simply wanted to ask, like, how this Bharat Jodo Nya Yatra is going to include the students. What I think is that you really provided a hope for us. Can I ask you a question? Yeah. What is a slave? Who is not allowed to think. Slavery is blind obedience. What the RSS is trying to do to India is trying to make sure that everybody is blindly obedient to what they say. Can a country function like that? I wanted to meet you in your university. I was not supposed to meet students in this closed little room, but the Home Minister of India gave an order to the owner of your university that you dare allow this conversation because he's going to say things to those students that are going to make them think about what is going on in India. And the answer to this blind obedience is what? Resistance. Resistance. Resistance because as an individual, I have my own view of the world. And not for the nation. For yourself. Resistance. Because it's your future you're talking about. How can you manage all the pressure, sir, and all those people's negative impact and the criticism? Can you come here a second? Yes, sir. So this is an idea. Maybe this is him calling me an idiot or him saying I'm a fool, a nasty idea. And now he's got it in his mind. Okay? So now, can you give it to me? He's now giving me the idea, right? Yes, sir. Okay, give it. Give it. This is very important for you. Give it, give it, give it. Very important, very important. Thank you, thank you. Very important, very important. Sir, this is very important. Very important. I'll keep it with me. Right? So please understand that any idea that comes to you, you choose to catch it. The point I'm making to you is, what you take away is up to you. You have a space called your mind. You control that space. Nobody else controls that space. So what you have to learn is how to control that space. So I do agree that resistance is the only apt reaction when faced with blind obedience. But I also think that in such a polarized climate, to be blindly obedient is the default. So to say that it should be on the individual to resist, may not be a very fair expectation as well. So I feel like to expect that from the individual is not realistic. So how do we then make politically aware citizens? If there's a dark room, how many candles do you need to light it up? Even if one person walks out of here, with it seriously in his mind that the person is going to resist, he'll have converted 100, 200 people outside. So it's infectious. What will it be for the first name that comes to mind when you say when India resisted against the British? What's the first name? Gandhi. All Gandhi did out there was resist. Don't underestimate what you as an individual can do. The other way to look at it, is that the idea of India is going through fire. It is going through fire to be further strengthened. Namaste brother Rahul. Namaste. People say that after going into politics, there's no place for good people, what do you want to say about politics? What do you want to say about it? I'd like to hear from them too. If politics is so bad, then I have a straight question. Then why does politics decide who will get the drop of the polio and who won't? After 1947, the constitution that has provided us with the rights that we are seeing today, has met with politics. So what is said is that politics shouldn't be done. It is what is said, which is already in the minds of politics. I believe that when you take it with salt, with oil, with a pen, with a book, with education, with health, who won't get the job, who will go to the temple, who won't. If everything has been decided by the politics, let's decide our politics. The simple answer is the best way for me to not want you to enter somewhere, to tell you it's dirty, it doesn't work, it's useless, you have no future. So that's what's going on. I feel like all students have opinions. All of them have things to say. But the biggest issue is that it's not considered as valid, it's not heard, we have no authority. But to be in this room with someone who has authority and actually be heard was nice. I think what Mahatma Gandhi did for India was something very commendable and what Raul Gandhi is doing now is something which will unite India. And take it forward, listen to what people say.