Amitava Kumar at his Substack:
A process of momentous change is afoot in India. A country with the world’s largest youth population is undergoing a transformation, thanks to its youth, and, equally important, thanks to a movement that is being led by young women. Over the last decade or more, the increasing centralization of power, in one party but also in the cult of one man, along with the control of the media as well as the courts, had seemed to spread a dark blanket over every aspiration to democracy. But the eruption of the youth movement has suddenly seized center stage. The revitalization of India’s democracy can only lead to a more progressive global order. In the face of the protests, the old order appears not just rigid and intolerant, it also stands exposed as out of touch and even foolish.
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