CJP protest

Dissent Is a Democratic Right, Not a Licence for Disorder

The Supreme Court has protected genuine protesters – but it has not created immunity for those who misuse a protest for unlawful ends. The Supreme Court’s decision concerning the recent student protests deserves to be welcomed—not selectively, but in its...
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The Anatomy of a Political Trap

Democracy guarantees every citizen the right to protest. It also places an equally important obligation upon governments to listen, negotiate and, where justified, resolve genuine public grievances. But democratic negotiations become extraordinarily complex when a protest movement evolves into a...
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Gen Z revolt leaves Modi govt scrambling

Mumbai: The recent CJP agitation at Jantar Mantar, amplified by a ferocious wave of social media backlash, has achieved what years of fragmented opposition politics could not: it has visibly shaken the highest echelons of the Narendra Modi government. For...
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Algorithmic Anarchy

The NEET paper leak protests at Delhi’s Jantar Mantar should have remained a legitimate expression of student anger over the collapse of examination integrity. Instead, as the agitation escalated into clashes with the police, abusive sloganeering and an increasingly radical...
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‘Just the beginning of the new revolution’

Gen Z says their next target is Nitin Gadkari and Nirmala Sitharaman Mumbai: Dancing on the tunes of ‘Zinghaat’, the Gen Z at Dadar, was celebrating Dharmendra’s Pradhan’s resignation. The ‘Tiranga’ rally called up by Thackeray brothers on Thursday for...
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