Season of protests

A WAVE of protests is sweeping across the world in a season of unrest. From West to East, the street is confronting the state. Led predominantly by students and young people, protests have been widening to encompass other disaffected groups in society. In some cases, they are morphing into a nationwide movement. On almost every continent, governments are being put on notice that there will be a price to pay for misgovernance and being indifferent to public demands. India’s Gen Z has been in the streets in anti-government protests against the controversial revision of electoral rolls. Students…