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Damo, a politically aware citizen participating at the protest in Chennai, corroborates, “Every conversation is political, whether you exercise the freedom to speak about politics, choose to hide from it, or pretend it does not exist. Any conversation about politics that is not attacking or hurting another person, or group of people, is a successful conversation.”
The creativity of these posts have even sparked a sense of missing out among those watching from afar, reflecting how protest itself has become part of a shared digital experience.
Haarika, meanwhile, shares how the Gen Z has turned protest sites as the places to be, normalising the act of demonstrating for a collective common cause — something that activists have long been striving to achieve. “The normalisation of participating in a protest, I think, is the greatest takeaway for this generation,” she concludes.
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