Last week, a 65-year-old grandmother from West Delhi clutched my hand as we crossed the road to reach Jantar Mantar, India’s most iconic protest site. A key demand of the youth protesters was the resignation of education minister Dharmendra Pradhan. Education and environment activist Sonam Wangchuk’s long fast at Jantar Mantar drew large crowds and gave the protesters moral weight. The youth protesters made clear that fusing the moral, digital and comical makes for an exceptionally potent strategy. In Bihar, young protesters leveraged water cannons to stage a rain dance and asked the police if they had made arrangements for teargas.