India's youth protests challenge Modi's decade-long 'architecture of fear'

Anish Gawande of the opposition Nationalist Congress Party argues that student protests in India signal a generational break in the country's politics. Young Indians are no longer intimidated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government and are demanding accountability rather than just education policy changes. Gawande says the movement exposes a growing gap between a government used to dominance and a generation unwilling to accept opacity or state intimidation.