When governments choose to treat their youth as expendable, they unwittingly create the opposition they fear the most. In Sri Lanka , it was the young protestors who camped outside the president’s office for months, forcing a government to resign. In Pakistan , the decades-old ban on student unions is being challenged, breathing new life into the country’s political discourse. Over the past decade, a pattern has emerged across South Asia: policies and practices that shut youth out of economic...

On 9th October 2024, at around 23:30, Ratan Tata breathed his last. Just as the news spread, the world stirred to a striking dichotomy