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Paji owns a clothing shop near Jantar Mantar was planning to shut down his shop because business was bad.
Before closing it, he decided to help the students who were beaten by the police.
He is now giving free T-shirts to women whose clothes were torn during the lathi charge or the stampede.
And lndbhakts say this protest is funded by foreigners.
Such acts are literally making me cry.😭
Hearing out Gen Z.
My father's caretaker is a 24 year old guy. Hails from Kanpur. He has done BSc Nursing and we have hired him through an agency that provides elder-care professionals at home.
Spends 12 hours at our home (8 am to 8 pm), rarely takes a leave. A very diligent guy, soft-spoken, well-read (keeps reading books from my collection) and speaks pretty fluent English.
On the morning of 20th July, he calls up and says he is not feeling well. On 21st he came, was limping a bit. Did not share what happened.
Yesterday he shared with dad that he told a lie. On 20th he had gone to Jantar-Mantar for supporting the students' protest and was hit by the police truncheon during lathi-charge. While running, lost his shoe and twisted his ankle.
Last night when I went home and was having dinner, dad told me about this. Today morning when he came I talked to him and realized what 'generation(al) gap' means.
While talking to him I realized, he was 9-10 when Anna Andolan happened. He was 10-11 when Arvind Kejriwal became the CM for the first time. He was 11-12 when BJP formed the government in 2014. The NEET aspirants are even younger than him. They were toddlers 12 years ago.
Some of the things we have lived through, are alien to him. All he has seen since he started experiencing the world is the current government and Modi as the PM. So for him, everything that he and his generation is been through in last 7-8 years since he 'grew up' - the responsibility lies with the current government.
He mentioned that there are 1000s of youngsters who have travelled from as far as Lucknow and Varanasi for these protests.
Again on being asked why? Why did he and his friends join the protest? Why these students have come so far to join the protests?
NEET exam leak was the last thing on his mind. The reasons he gave were - everything becoming expensive and unaffordable, no job opportunities, government's and police's high-headedness, corruption everywhere - and then went on to mention falling bridges, broken roads, no footpaths, stray dogs and cattle all around and dumps of garbage everywhere. He called ethanol-blending a scam.
I felt he was just waiting to burst out everything that's piled up in his mind. Glad that heard him out.
Then I realized that there are millions like him and these protests are not just about the NEET exam leak. These are the piled up frustrations finding a way out.
आप इस बात से सरकार के स्वास्थ्य का अंदाजा लगाइये कि राहुल गाँधी ने शिक्षा पर प्रेस कॉन्फ्रेंस की और जवाब में स्वास्थ्य मंत्री सफाई दे रहे हैं।
आख़िर ऐसा क्या लीकप्रधान से लीक होने के लिए बचा है कि प्रधानमंत्री चुप हैं और एक इस्तीफ़ा नहीं ले पा रहे हैं ?
Anchor –– Why are you saying Dharmendra Pradhan is not good
Satish Ray –– I can do better than him
Anchor –– What will you do if you are made the education minister?
Satish Ray –– "Resign" 🔥😂
Influencers are cooking BJP brutally 🗿
Someone tell these guys that if they actually do attack those students, the hell that will rain down on them, and on the BJP/RSS ecosystem that protects them, will be unimaginable.
My two cents:
Jantar Mantar has turned into a carnival of resistance. And it has spread to other cities across India.
It has moved beyond Wangchuk. The protestors don't give a flying fuck about what his wife, Gitanjali, thinks of Rahul Gandhi's protest.
They don't care about the statements from attention seeking AAP leaders.
They don't care whether some Congress supporters approve of it either.
After Rahul Gandhi's protest outside the PM's house, graffiti thanking him for it came up at the protest site.
The young protestors are not interested in this juvenile "my protest is better than your protest" argument.
They are mature enough to understand that. Unfortunately, some netas and their chamchas are not.
Dude jumped into the tear gas coz he had never tasted it 😂😂
Then he says ‘The stuff is amazing. Zero percent ethanol’ 😂😂
Biharis are just built different bro
The order giving the Delhi Police the liberty to use this most horrendous and draconian law was passed by Lt Governor of Delhi @SandhuTaranjitS on July 15, 2026.
“By sunrise it was clear that a generation of desperate and furious young people who have seen their future snuffed out before their eyes, was going to reclaim what their parents and grandparents’ generations had conceded: our dignity as a people and as a country.”
Cockroach Democracy: Unarmed and Dangerous
https://t.co/hurFUpqjGm via @thewire_In
Arundhati Roy, and Geetanjali Shree. Trust your Booker winners. 💖😃
"These people up there – the ministers, the bureaucrats, the police, are people’s representatives and public servants. They are not gods...
“Thank you, all you young people, for reminding us about democracy. Salaam to you. And a plea that the powers that be will do their duty wisely."
~ Geetanjali Shree
https://t.co/lpJarvmqX0