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India’s middle‑class crisis: the great bifurcation and the Gen Z uprising
The student protests we have been witnessing in India can be explained in large part by the crisis facing the Indian middle class, marked in particular by graduate unemployment and a...
“You can silence me, but you cannot silence the truth”
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