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The Parents' Generation Is Also on Trial

Amid continuing student protests in Jharkhand and elsewhere over institutional accountability, exam fairness and jobs [OPERATOR VERIFY], commentator Pratap Bhanu Mehta has argued that these protests indict not just the current government but the entire post-liberalisation generation's strategy of "accommodation" - pursuing individual careers instead of collective action - which he says allowed institutions to hollow out from…