Did "uncertainty and the meaninglessness of life" fuel student protests?: Prof. Suhas Palshikar, Chief Editor, Studies in Indian Politics, to Karan Thapar for The Wire.

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How should we assess the outcome of last week’s student protests? Is there a wider message that they have signalled? For the government? For the country? And how should we view the future of the Cockroach Janata Party and Abhijeet Dipke? Those are some of the key issues I will explore today with the Chief Editor of Studies in Indian Politics, Prof. Suhas Palshikar.

Prof. Palshikar argues that the student protests sent out two loud and clear messages to the government as well as the country. The first was about the education system. It has, as he puts it, become “boring time-pass” or a “creche for young adults”. It n ...