Come the revolution
The young are natural rebels. Student movements across the world have toppled regimes, questioned government policies or at the very least, 'shaken it up'.
In 1968, students of two Paris universities hit the streets, sparking a nationwide agitation that led to President Charles de Gaulle having to flee France. In 1989, The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia led to the fall of Communism in Eastern Europe, and inspired the bloody protests in Beijing's Tiananmen Square.
In India, the tradition goes back to the 19th century when Henry Derozio started the 'Young Bengal' movement from Presidency College, Calcutta. Among other things, the movement questioned religious pieties and taboos. In the early 20th century, on Mahatma Gandhi's prodding, students left schools and
