Goa, Sept. 4 -- SHASHWAT GUPTA RAY

The recent stu dent-led protests over ir regularities in the NEET ex aminations have exposed a contradiction among Goa's Gen Z - young people are increasingly politically conscious, better informed about their legal rights and more willing to challenge those in power, yet many remain reluctant to make politics a full-time career. For a generation often dismissed as politically apathetic, the growing will ingness of young people to take to the streets tells a very different story. From the NEET protests to ear lier mobilisation against double-tracking and Sec tion 39A of the Goa Town and Country Planning Act, young Goans have demon strated that they are will ing to organise, protest and confront authorit...