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Gen Alpha Rises: Inside India's New School Protest Wave

The Ujjain protest succeeded in reversing a school merger order days after it went viral, while ten other schools in the same district facing identical mergers have seen no reversal and rising dropout numbers. Similar protests have broken out this month in Chhindwara, Chhatarpur, Damoh, Lucknow, Alwar, Barmer and Gaya, all over the same basics - teachers, roads, food, electricity - marking a new, younger front in India's…