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Insiyah Vahanvaty in her insightful piece, saw a celebration of fraternity in the protest at Jantar Mantar and observed “This too is politics.”JUST A FEW WEEKS BEFORE the celebrations of India’s 80th independence day commenced on August 15 this year, the youth protest at Jantar Mantar which demanded the Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan’s resignation over the NEET exam paper leaks spontaneously secured country wide support in spite of brutal lathi charge, firing of tear gas shells...

THERE WAS HARDLY any anticipation in any quarter in the country that a month and half before the 80th anniversary of independence the generation that came of age under the rule of the Bharatiya Janata Party led by Narendra Modi would blow the wits out of Modi and the BJP.

ON 18 JULY 1947, a bill received Royal Assent at Westminster, running to twenty sections and three schedules in the flat, unbothered prose that statutes reserve for everything alike, whether they are regulating the sale of milk or dismantling an empire.

Harish Khare is a journalist, political analyst and was the Editor in Chief of The Tribune.

Ajay Gudavarthy The author is an associate professor at the Center for Political Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University. His forthcoming book is Politics, Ethics and Emotions in 'New India' (Routledge, London, 2022).

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