India’s prime minister Narendra Modi has, in his 12 years in office, cultivated an image of being larger than life. Specifically, Modi addressed the viral clips of young women protestors using profanity to poke fun at him. (MJ Akbar, the only Modi minister who’s resigned, left because of a personal criminal allegation.) To puncture his image, protestors not only used humour but also, like in Jantar Mantar, married it with profanity aimed at the prime minister. Given that Gen Z has come of age in the Modi era, all they have seen is the prime minister being near-worshipped on television.