India, July 28 -- Safe drinking water, functional fans, clean toilets, library; armed with a lengthy charter of demands, hundreds of students at a school in Fatehpur of Uttar Pradesh, staged a five-hour demonstration -- to which the administration succumbed and said yes.

Inspiration or imitation? The protest at the Sarvodaya Inter College in Kishanpur on Tuesday could be either. Coming days after the Cockroach Janta Party-spearheaded stir over the NEET paper leak galvanised lakhs of students, videos of the protest at the Kishanpur school quickly went viral -- with some calling the school students 'Gen Alpha'.

Vibrant placards and portraits of Dr B R Ambedkar held high in the backdrop of the waving Tricolour as students protested against...