Modi Faces Unprecedented Challenge From Youth Protests — SkimNews
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- Modi faces an unprecedented challenge to his power as India's youth mobilize in growing protests.
- India's youth-led protests continue to expand despite government lockdowns and thousands detained, with The Economist and Reuters characterizing the crackdown as failing to crush the Gen Z movement.
Why it matters: The New Yorker's headline — 'Is This the Beginning of the End of Indian Democracy?' — marks this as more than a standard policy dispute, elevating mass detentions and youth mobilization into a legitimacy test for a leader previously treated as politically unassailable.
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