Thailand's octogenarian intellectual rages on

Buddhist nonviolent activist Sulak Sivaraksa finds hope in student protests

JEFFREY SNG, Contributing writer

July 12, 2021 08:10 JST

BANGKOK -- Sulak Sivaraksa, who was born in 1932, the same year as the fall of Thailand's absolute monarchy, is Thailand's most controversial public intellectual. A household name in Thailand, he is relatively unknown in the West despite being one of the most prominent Buddhist advocates of social justice through nonviolence.