
When we interviewed young students at IIT Kanpur and asked if he was a role model for them, almost all said they admired his honesty and courage but felt he could have been smarter, gone to the media first, protected himself.
Let his life and death not go to waste. Else, it would have been better to have let the Dubey family grieve privately four years ago. And Satyendra Dubey would have been another unsung, forgotten hero.
Vaid, a documentary film-maker, has directed the film ‘Satyendra Jayate: The story of a whistle-blower’ that was telecast on November 27, 2006 on NDTV 24/7 and is being re-telecast today on the same channel, in partnership with the Indian Express