A juncture and a moment

A CLUTCH of unforeseen events have combined to pose the existential crisis Prime Minister Narendra Modi is facing from unemployed youth and young students, who after claiming his education minister’s scalp recently are now determined to win the resignation of Gyanesh Kumar, India’s chief election commissioner whom they call “a vote thief”. The first trigger for the youth to take to the streets came with the cancellation and corruption in the entrance exams to India’s medical colleges, which led to nationwide protests amid a dozen suicides by dejected students. Then the chief justice of India…