Starting from the young people who came together at Jantar Mantar during the CJP protests, this conversation asks what brought them there, what they made possible together, and what we can learn by understanding these protests as part of an emerging Gen Z politics.

Is NEP the only reason for the protest, and if not, then what were the other causes that led to the protest? A critical discussion around Eram Agha’s Caravan article “Teaching a Lesson: How the NEP’s killing of the public university brought Gen Z out on the streets”. Alongside questioning education policy, students’ futures, social change.