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Protests are pointless without understanding this

India is in a toxic relationship. It is beginning to end, except in some quarters.

The ongoing student protests at Jantar Mantar are worth paying attention to. Not only because of the dissent they represent, but also because they contain a lot of people who are only just becoming aware of the state that the rest of India has been in for the last dozen or so years.

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