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A generation raised entirely inside the Modi cult, fed thirteen years of propaganda and the vilification of Muslims, has turned against it through the simple, stubborn refusal of young minds to be conditioned.
Nehru told a burning country that it had kept a tryst. A tryst has two parties, and we have never once been careful about naming the second.
Ambedkar argued once that every act of independent thinking puts the stable world in peril. The Gen-Z protests leading up to Indias 80th independence day have certainly rattled the stable world of the autocrats, who for long have distorted the ideal of swaraj.
An insult meant to mock unemployed youth instead became the Gen Z protests unlikely banner and along the way, revealed something the Constitution asked of us decades ago: not just liberty and equality, but the harder, gentler work of fraternity.
Eighty years after Independence, the fight against exam-system collapse, bulldozer raj and communal politics is a continuation of the freedom struggle itself.