India, Aug. 13 -- The death of Shibu Soren, Dishom Guru, one of the founders of Jharkhand, stalwart of the Adivasi movement, three-time Chief Minister, Union Minister, and long-serving Parliamentarian, is more than a political loss. It marks the passing of a voice that anchored Jharkhand's identity and gave its people a place in the national conscience.
For Hemant Soren, the Chief Minister of Jharkhand, this was not merely the loss of a towering leader but the loss of a father, mentor, and moral compass. In Nemra village, his ancestral home, the photographs did not show a politician performing grief for the cameras. They showed a son, stripped of the armour of office, unguarded in his pain, breaking down in a way no official statement coul...