Kira Huju

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81 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 27 Jul

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The Intelligence from The Economist · Cockroaches 1, Modi 0: India’s remarkable protests · 27 Jul 2026 podcast

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He was holding the camera himself really uncomfortably close to his own nostrils and he apologized in a very candid way, acknowledging the student's pain.

But it seems to have been too late.

Denzi responded with mock online tutorials guiding their prime minister on more appropriate lighting and camera and script for viral videos.

And so I think Morty got a sense that there was no way of winning these students.

back unless he cave to their demands.

What his image is that of a strongman leader who doesn't bow to the public, he doesn't accept traditional notions of democratic accountability.

He hasn't in all this time taken a single press conference in which the press could hold him to account.

So it seems that something could be pretty fundamentally shifting.

It might be that going forward

performance and public support actually matter for staying a minister.

It might mean that the stronghold of the traditional media, which has mostly stopped criticizing Morty, is breaking because Gen Z will just come with their own cameras and phones and film it all for the world to see.

The quotroaches have gone home.

I hope that they all have a long warm shower and a meal.

We don't really know what's gonna happen with the movement, where that new culture of descent is gonna go.

But from the conversations I have had in true Gen Z style with a lot of these protesters on Instagram, they are saying, look, we've had this really historic win in quite a short period of time.

There's no way that we're not gonna be back on Parliament Street the next time that the government thinks it can take us for granted.

Now, the reality check on all of this is that BJV is actually just fresh off a string of state election victories in May.

It is politically strong across the country, and frankly, the country's opposition is not very impressive or particularly united.

But I think Indians wake up this week to a country that feels bolder and louder and younger.

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