Is Modi's Aura of Invincibility Cracking? India's Youth Protests Test the Strongman's Grip

Is Narendra Modi losing his most powerful political asset: the perception that he is unbeatable? As India's youth protest movement confronts an increasingly combative government, Dr. Subir Sinha argues that the political significance of these demonstrations goes far beyond the arrests of opposition activists and the growing confrontation between protesters and state institutions. Dr. Sinha is Director of the SOAS South Asia Institute and Reader in Development Studies. He examines how the government's increasingly repressive response may be exposing the fragility of its authority and institutional legitimacy. Could India's emerging protest movement be dismantling the political mythology that has sustained Modi's hold on power?