Published : Aug 06, 2026 18:19 IST - 7 MINS READEntering the neighbourhood of Shivaji Park in Mumbai, where the Gen Z protest was shaping up, I was almost whacked across my face. For a while now, researchers have been trying to put Gen Z on the analyst’s couch. The unserious generationThey call themselves an unserious generation. Not because the Gen Z movement is not interested in the building of an institution but because it has neither patience for nor hope in institutions inaugurating systemic forms of justice. Gen Z recognised, correctly, the world of images we inhabit and fought, image for image.