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‘Cockroach’ movement rewrites India’s protest playbook, says global media

International publications also look at the Assam’s worst floods in six decades, and how US-Iran war is making staple & affordable food more expensive in Asian economies.

Modi’s ‘aura of invincibility punctured’, Dipke ‘accidental hero’—global media’s take on Gen Z protests

Dharmendra Pradhan’s resignation is 'humiliating climbdown' for govt but, more importantly, the CJP movement encompasses 'broader frustrations', it reports.

Global media’s Delhi bulletin: CJP protest a ‘Gen Z affair’, lays bare ‘limits of propaganda’

From The Economist to BBC, NYT & FT, global media say youth-led agitation has exposed a challenge Modi govt didn't anticipate. It's harder to counter with the BJP's usual playbook. 

Govt has lost ‘first round’—global media on CJP stir, India’s ‘pressure-cooker’ education system

Economist says demand for ‘proper education’ has fuelled one of Delhi’s biggest protests in years while NYT examines what youth anger could mean for Modi govt.

CJP stir ‘rare public challenge’ to Modi govt, has ‘gone far beyond angry youth’—Global media

In The Wall Street Journal, a letter responds to columnist Sadanand Dhume’s 15 July opinion that juxtaposed China’s meritocracy with India’s quota system.

‘Cracks’ in PM Modi’s image? What global media said on CJP protest, Sonam Wangchuk’s fast

Pressing topics and bills such as FCRA and Delimitation Bill that are to come up in the Monsoon Session of Parliament also find place in reports about India.

Affirmative action vs merit—global media has a take on Indian, Chinese systems & growth output

Global media also reports on ‘ad hoc’ deals between countries and removal of ‘inappropriate and objectionable’ content from books maintained by educational institutions in Kashmir.

‘Incremental rather than transformational’: Global media’s assessment of India-UK FTA

BBC says the trade pact could boost exports and growth, but analysts flag tariff and non-tariff barriers that could temper the gains. 

India leans on overseas citizens to prop up Rupee; global media also reports on Wangchuk’s hunger strike

Global media also reported on the border fencing project that has picked up pace in West Bengal since BJP came to power in the state, and resumption of fighting between the US and Iran.

India’s brutal exam culture, failure to groom footballing talent catch the eye of global media

BBC reports on judge Tabassum Khan getting online threats after mob lynching conviction & NYT covers Delhi’s ‘fabled’ Gymkhana Club now ‘facing extinction under Mr Modi’s campaign’. 

On Camera

Modi govt is giving more teeth to a paper leak law that has so far bitten none

Two years later, we are made to believe that this time the amendments will be the panacea. A law deters only if it is effectively enforced.

Turkey seeks to capitalise on strategic location to attract the rich from London & Dubai

Ankara recently announced it’s ushering in a range of tax incentives for monied expats and investors abroad.

Nationalism cannot be the preserve of only armed forces: Former CDS slams defence white labelling

White labelling is a term used to describe the practice of supplying foreign-origin systems as indigenous products with little or no value addition.

Modi govt response to Gen Z protest shows a rare vulnerability. It’s an opportunity for Opposition

The young people broke the self-imposed silence among the elite not to speak a word critical of the Modi government, except to whisper on the sidelines, looking left, right and behind.