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Cold Stats, Warm Spirits: Inside the Gen Z Protest
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India's Gen Z forced a political reckoning over exam leaks, but their protest was also about stagnant jobs, weak public education, and underutilizing a finite demographic dividend period.
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Cold Stats, Warm Spirits: Inside the Gen Z Protest
India's Gen Z has been at the forefront of a protest movement that has forced a political reckoning over exam leaks. However, the protest is not just about the exam leaks, but also about the deeper issues of stagnant jobs, weak public education, and underutilizing a finite demographic dividend period. The protest has shown that sustained public mobilisation can still force political accountability, and young Indians are unlikely to remain silent in the face of injustice.
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