The WhatsApp generation made today’s BJP; the Instagram generation is challenging it
The only tool that the state has to tame a generation that its parents cannot is brute force. Brute force may succeed in the geographic and social peripheries of the nation, but in the heartland, things are more complicated
· 7/23/2026, 7:40:52 AM· 2 min read

The only tool that the state has to tame a generation that its parents cannot is brute force. Brute force may succeed in the geographic and social peripheries of the nation, but in the heartland, things are more complicated
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