The arrest of climate activist Sonam Wangchuk, who said that frustration among Ladakh’s youth grew because the government ignored peaceful appeals for years, betrays the deep-seated fear of the central government and its awareness of the incendiary potential of mass revolts welling out of entrenched grievances.

Nearer home, mob justice and violence, evident from the expression of anger and frustration of the Nepali youth, unseated the K P Oli-led coalition government recently.

Going by the youth-led movement in Nepal, the one which overthrew the regime of Sheikh Hasina last summer, and the ouster of the Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa and his brother Mahinda, the prime minister, in 2022, commonalities are not far to seek: runaway corruption, stark inequalities, economic dispariti

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