Is Narendra Modi losing his most powerful political asset: the perception of invincibility? As India’s youth protest movement confronts an increasingly combative government, Dr. Subir Sinha, Director of the SOAS South Asia Institute and Reader in Development Studies, argues that the political significance of the demonstrations extends far beyond the arrests of opposition activists and the growing confrontation between protesters and state institutions. Dr. Sinha examines how the government’s increasingly repressive response may be exposing the fragility of its authority and institutional legitimacy. Could India’s emerging protest movement be dismantling the political mythology that has sustained Modi’s hold on power?
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