Can India’s Gen Z Change Politics Like US Students Did?

In some respects, when Gen Z (spearheaded by the Cockroach Janta Party) protested India’s corrupt examination system in July, it echoed the US’ Gen Z movement where students protested the Israeli genocide of Palestinians in Gaza. America’s Gen Z protests peaked in April 2024, but their repercussions will be felt in the coming mid-term election in November; US politics is taking an unprecedented anti-Israeli turn, spearheaded by Gen Z. Progressive Abdul El-Sayed’s…

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Gen Z Protests and India’s Democratic Future

The placards demanding justice for students affected by repeated examination paper leaks were impossible to miss. What stayed with me at Jantar Mantar, however, was something else. Young people wrote poetry on cardboard, sang songs of resistance, shared water and food with strangers, debated without resentment, and, as the crowds dispersed, stayed back to clean…

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