The ‘lazy’ generation held power accountable
This piece challenges the stereotype that Gen Z is apathetic, citing the successful, disciplined, and peaceful protests at Jantar Mantar that forced a cabinet minister's resignation. It highlights the protesters' use of irony, satire, and constitutional literacy as effective tools for modern democratic dissent.
There is a lazy consensus about India’s Gen Z, repeated so often in drawing rooms and Op-Ed pages that it has calcified into fact: that they are distracted, entitled, allergic to hardship, more fluent in memes than in civics, and raised on instant gratification, and they could never organise, let alone sustain, anything requiring discipline.
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