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A trio scripting new saga in Indian Democracy
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The Shillong Times
These young girls aren’t only participating to support their male counterparts instead became face and voice of resistance against those in power.
These young girls bravely faced police brutality on 20 July when police resorted to teargas shelling, lathi charge, and other measures to prevent marching student protestor from reaching parliament.
A question however comes to the mind that suddenly what has changed in Indian society that young girls became so brave to publicly come forward in a movement becoming its face and voice?
This phenomenon is fundamentally altering the mechanism of protest in India, which is witnessing its first digital movement with a resonance on the ground.
As a result, the prime minister Narendra Modi tried to directly connect with these young protestors using a Instagram video in a tweaked language attempting to resonate with them.