It is worth asking whether the movement remained true to the cause that gave it life. The NEET protest at Jantar Mantar ended with the resignation of the Union Education Minister, but one question remains: whose playbook was actually being run here? The shape of what unfolded was not new. It closely tracked a well-documented set of organising tactics — the same ones laid out in Saul Alinsky’s 1971 manual Rules for Radicals, the foundational text for a certain style of activis