Have a look at the bio, education and family of Gitanjali J Angmo, the wife of Sonam Wangchuk
Sonam Wangchuk, a climate activist, declared on Saturday that he and other Ladakh protestors would go on an indefinite fast because the government is not answering their requests to meet with the Union Home Minister, the Prime Minister, or the President.
For the past month, Sonam Wangchuk has been conducting the ‘Delhi Chalo Padyatra,’ which began in Leh. The Leh Apex Body and the Kargil Democratic Alliance collaborated to organize this march, which was part of a four-year campaign to support Ladakh’s statehood and inclusion in the Sixth Schedule of the Constitution.
Who is Gitanjali J Angmo wife of Sonam Wangchuk, biography, age, family, children, education, career and religion
Got my second Dan black belt. I dream for every girl in India to be a #blackbelt #Shakti #WomensEmpowerment #SelfDefense #selfreliance #tapthestrengthwithin #peacefulwarriors pic.twitter.com/M5QYb7Ri78
— Gitanjali J Angmo (@GitanjaliJb) February 27, 2021
The climate activist said at a press conference that they had made appointment requests to the President, Prime Minister, and Union Home Minister’s offices. They received an assurance that they will be informed by Friday at 5:00 PM about the meeting but still failed to get a place to protest in Delhi by Sunday as well.
Sonam Wangchuk who is a Buddhist by religion is married to Gitanjali Jain Angmo, a Punjabi Jain and the couple is blessed with two kids.
Gitanjali is a serial entrepreneur, Russian Bolshoi ballet dancer and a certified karate black belt with two dan black belts.
Born into a Punjabi Jain business family in Balasore, Odisha, 51-year-old Gitanjali’s grandfather had migrated from Lahore during Partition and a physics graduate, she completed her MBA from Xavier Institute of Management, Bhubaneswar. She then had a six-year corporate career working in a consulting company and leading the marketing division for a Copenhagen-based Indian multinational.
She then went on a 15-year long entrepreneurial spree, during which she established an engineering firm (Pushan Projects), a publishing house (Chennai-based Helios Books) and acquired a hospital (Puducherry-based AUM Hospitals).
Sonam has set up a university in Phyang village of Ladakh called the Himalayan Institute of Alternatives, Ladakh (HIAL) and partnering him in this endeavour as HIAL’s Co-founder-CEO is the remarkable Ms Gitanjali JB.
Sonam Wangchuk career and education
Sonam Wangchuk is an Indian engineer, innovator, and supporter of educational reform. As the founding director of the Students’ Educational and Cultural Movement of Ladakh (SECMOL), he oversaw the organization’s establishment in 1988.
According to him, the students were the “victims” of an outside educational system that was imposed on Ladakh. He is renowned for creating the solar-powered SECMOL campus, which eliminates the need for fossil fuels for heating, lighting, or cooking.
Wangchuk had a key role in the 1994 start of Operation New Hope, an effort by the government, rural communities, and civil society to overhaul the public education system. He developed the method known as “Ice Stupa,” which produces man-made glaciers that are utilized to store winter water in the form of ice heaps in the shape of cones.
At the National Institute of Technology Srinagar (formerly known as REC Srinagar), Wangchuk earned his B.Tech in Mechanical Engineering in 1987. He had to pay for his own schooling as he couldn’t agree with his father on the engineering track he should have taken. In 2011, he also attended the Craterre School of Architecture in Grenoble, France, for two years to further his studies in Earthen Architecture.
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Meanwhile… let me take a little break from our long & frustrating wait for a permitted place to do a peaceful anshan.
Let me introduce you’ll to my best half, who has been by my side for many years… implementing on ground what lies hidden in the pages of the… pic.twitter.com/pjcw6azYs6— Sonam Wangchuk (@Wangchuk66) October 6, 2024