India, July 26 -- They fasted, they gave speeches, they made jokes, and they danced in the end, to songs from 'Dil Se', the cult classic that's as much about love as it is about tragedy. Neha Bora and other activists of the All India Students' Association (AISA) had also come to embody the youth protests otherwise led by the Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) over NEET-UG and other paper leaks.

Posting the video of celebrations after education minister Dharmendra Pradhan's resignation on July 25, she captioned it, "If I can't dance, It won't be my revolution!" - a popular paraphrasing of a central idea of revolutionary political activist Emma Goldman (1869-1940).

Hours before the resignation concluded the stir for now, Leader of Opposition Rah...