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Smells of teen power : The ongoing revolution in India

Smells of teen power : The ongoing revolution in India

Written by : Debkumar Mitra Kolkata, India Illustration : Suman Choudhury A little more than 50 years after that famous student uprising in the streets of Paris, 1968 is being replayed in Delhi, Kolkata, Mumbai, Bangalore, and other cities of India. While, the French students led by people such as Danny the Red fought with President Charles de Gaulle’s gendarme for sexual freedom, war in Vietnam and jobs, in India the students are out in the openapparently, if one goes by the official media versions,to protest police excesses on university campuses. The situation has been on the boil on the…
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