Leaflet Specials

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 India’s 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 protest’s 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.

Despite its symbolic victory two weeks ago, the ideological and constitutional ‘legitimacy’ of the CJP movement is being scrutinised by the BJP-RSS repeatedly. Gandhi’s and Ambedkar’s vision constitute a firm response to the Sangh’s ideological fabrications justifying the state repression against protestors.

Ambedkar warned that even the best constitutions can fail if those who uphold them fall short. At Jantar Mantar, Gen-Z’s Gandhian instinct for self-restraint and co-responsibility showed democracy becoming, once again, a way of life.

The Constituent Assembly members never foresaw ‘paper leaks’ as a crisis in independent India’s education future. But debates on the Public Service Commissions reveal an acute anxiety among the framers that without integrity of the examination process, self-government post British-rule would remain strained.

Eighty years after Independence, the fight against exam-system collapse, bulldozer raj and communal politics is a continuation of the freedom struggle itself.