Nepal, July 21 -- What began as outrage over exam leaks has rapidly evolved into an offline generational revolt against a system that treats young Indians as disposable. By forcing the question of accountability all the way up to Prime Minister Narendra Modi himself, these students have turned Delhi's streets into the one arena where power can no longer avert its gaze or hide behind procedure.

The students' protest march to the parliament marks a qualitative break from earlier agitations because they have turned a single-issue exam scandal into a system-wide indictment of Modi's governance and institutional decay, led by a spontaneously politicised Gen Z.

1. It has gone far beyond Dharmendra Pradhan - it is about Modi now

The trigger r...