Grab a tea. You're gonna need it. Because a lot has happened in the last eight months.
It's time I told you what's been happening behind the scenes in my and Manisha's life.
So, let's start from the top.
My name is Karl Rock and the Government of India has stopped
me from returning to India, separating me from my wife and my family.
So, who am I?
What happened?
And why did this happen? We'll go over all of that in this video.
So, who am I? I'm a content creator. I make videos about travel safety, incredible travel destinations,
I make videos helping people avoid scams in both English and Hindi, and I just cover everything
to do with my life and family.
I've been to every single State and Union Territory in India.
From Mizoram to Lakshadweep. And I did that because I wanted to see all of India.
India is my passion.
And if I look familiar, no I'm not PewDiePie, but you might remember me last year donating plasma
twice to the Delhi Plasma Clinic.
Or more recently, you might have seen my viral video
where I reply to someone trolling India very simply and very sweetly with "Long live India."
My wife's name is Manisha Malik.
We meet in Delhi in October 2014.
And we got married in April 2019.
My Father-in-law's home is in Hansi, Haryana.
And my Mother-in-law's village is in the Churu district of Rajasthan.
I love and miss my family a lot.
To be away from them for so long is very difficult.
So, what happened?
Now, here's what happened.
So, I left india in October 2020 to go traveling in Dubai and Pakistan.
When I left through the New Delhi International Airport they cancelled my visa.
They would not tell me why they were cancelling my visa.
So, when I got back to Dubai I applied for a new visa
and quite surprisingly they called me into the Indian High Commission in Dubai.
And they told me in person that, "Karl you've been blacklisted and we can't
issue you a visa to go home to India."
So, since then, Manisha and I have been running around trying to sort this out with the Government.
Trying to get them to talk to us about what happened, why it happened, how we can fix this.
We've written multiple emails to the Home Ministry.
No reply, no reply.
My wife turned up at the Home Ministry's doorstep in Delhi. No help, just ignored.
I've written to His Excellency, the Indian High Commissioner, here in Wellington.
Totally ignored. Even when I turned up at the High Commission in Wellington asking for help nothing happened.
I sent a follow-up mail saying, "Please help." Ignored.
Ignored.
And at that time, my wife had COVID for a second time
and I'd taken the COVID positive test there saying, "Please help me. I have to get back to my wife."
Just totally ignored. Does not care.
And during that time, I was so worried about her.
When I had COVID in March 2020 she took care of me. You've all seen that from my videos but
I feel so bad because I wasn't there for her when she needed me. When she had COVID really
bad a second time during India's second wave.
And during this time I was so worried because
the very hospital that we go to, 25 people died from lack of oxygen.
Jaipur Golden Hospital has claimed that 25 critical patients lost their life.
The hospital today has informed the Delhi High Court the 25 patients in the hospital lost their
lives because of the non-availability of oxygen.
My wife was here.
What did you see here last night?
At 10 pm everything was fine, so we went home.
Around 3 am the doctors called me to say that my wife died from cardiac arrest.
When there's no oxygen, then what will the patient do???
They told us that were giving them oxygen using smaller cylinders, but they’re not enough!
6 Patients died in that ward!
So that's what I've been going through trying to get back to India. Trying to ask...
We've been trying to ask everybody for help in the Government, but we're just ignored every single time.
Even from the High Commission here in New Zealand.
Now, you might be thinking, "Karl you have a European Passport you have a New Zealand passport.
You guys can go live anywhere - You and Manisha.
But the thing is, we don't want to live anywhere else. India is our dream country and we both love India.
My wife spent six years of her life studying for Civil Service examinations. That's the level of
devotion she has to India.
She's a Nationalist in the most purest sense and her devotion and her love for India and Indian culture
is something that I absolutely love about her.
So it's very wrong for the Government of India to be trying to force her to leave the country because,
you know, she she needs to be with me. We need to be together, we're married, right?
It's very very wrong.
And, me, being exiled from my family has been extremely difficult as I'm sure you can imagine.
I have gone through a lot of separation trauma. At the beginning, I would have panic attacks.
I would feel like like there's water coming up and I'm drowning because there's nothing I can
do to get back to my family.
And it's just led to me being deeply deeply unhappy in life.
Like imagine that you're up against the Government of India.
A very very very tough and strong Government.
I've never had so much pressure on my shoulders before and
and you feel it. And it's the most pressure I've ever felt in my life. And it's too much.
But...
if there's one thing that I've learned from being part of a Haryanvi family in India
it's how to be brave and it's how to fight.
So we will fight. And I will get back to India.
Now question that everybody wants to know the answer to, including myself, is "Why have I been blacklisted?"
And I don't know. The last eight months we've been asking the Government this very question.
But they've been ignoring us.
Before somebody is blacklisted they're meant to be given a right of reply and time to reply.
I wasn't.
So today we are filing a petition in the High Court asking for my name
to be removed from the blacklist. In the Delhi High Court.
And I'm feeling so thankful for the Indian Judiciary system
because me and Manisha have been ignored by the Government the entire time.
Without the Judiciary we have no recourse.
So I'm extremely thankful for them and I'm hopeful
they'll review my blacklisting and give a fair decision.
Through all this, there's only one regret that I have.
And it's all the worry and the stress that I put on my wife, Parents-in-law, and family.
So please forgive me. I'm Sorry.
And if you want to help Manisha and I, please go and sign our petition.
It's linked in the description below.
And, I'm just waiting for the moment when I can step foot back in Delhi
and in Haryana and be with my family again.
In the meantime we will probably meet up in Nepal, Pakistan, or Bangladesh.
That is what we will have to do until I'm back in India.
Long live India.