As the U.S. political system endures a chaotic administration, rocked by countless scandals and betrayals at the behest of an unfit leader whose actions have affected global relations, one mans resolve in Panjab, India brings hope in the search for humanity and compassion.

This movement is led by an 84-year-old grandfather named Bapu Surat Singh Khalsa. Since January 2015, Bapu Surat Singh has committed himself to a hunger strike to help free Sikh political prisoners. His campaign will reach 950 days in August 2017.

While Bapu Surat Singh had intended to carry out this hunger strike as a peaceful protest at home in Hassanpur, Panjab, he was quickly removed from his residence by force and kept at hospitals for more than 600 days for treatment and force-feeding.