India, Nov. 3 -- The blockbuster Aamir Khan movie "Three Idiots" is to some degree inspired by Sonam Wangchuk of Ladakh. You heard right, the same person whom the Government has now arrested under the draconian National Security Act and lodged in faraway Jodhpur jail. Ironically, until recently, Wangchuk was an avid fan of Prime Minister Narendra Modi for bifurcating Ladakh from the rest of the Jammu and Kashmir state. When did the love story turn sour?

Here is the real Ladakh story, not from three idiots, but from three wise (wo)men who met Wangchuk in Ladakh on September 12 and 13, just a few days before the unfortunate violence erupted on September 24, resulting in Wangchuk's arrest, even though he is a known Gandhian who eschews viol...