India, July 24 -- Anyone who knows their memes will instantly recognise the "Subway Surfers" inspired reels coming out of the Jantar Mantar protest - of Gen Z protesters running on the streets of central Delhi with a policeman chasing after them with a lathi, all set to the tune of the 2012 online game in which the player runs endlessly dodging obstacles. Track the July 24 CJP protest here

One such reel by a Delhi-based fitness influencer with the caption "Bro thought he can outrun me" has garnered 2.3 million likes on Instagram. There are 129,000 reels with the theme song on Instagram, and plenty recorded and uploaded on July 20 when tens of thousands of protesters swarmed central Delhi as part of a planned but unauthorised protest marc...