Revolution in the air

WHAT INTRIGUES ME about the revolution in Nepal being led by angry, young people is how they have turned #nepokidz into a rallying cry.

- TAVLEEN SINGH

The habit of breeding nepo-babies that nearly all political leaders in this sub-continent embrace makes me personally very angry. So, I have sympathy for all jobless, despairing young people without being an advocate of anarchy. Nepal's 'Gen-Z' seems to have been enraged about nepotism for a long while and have expressed these feelings on social media.

Unsurprisingly, it was the ban on social media that acted as a trigger for the anarchy we saw play out in the streets of Kathmandu and spread slowly into rural districts. A young man from Nepal who works in Mumbai told me that he had an aunt who was a rural politician and she had been advised to go into hiding when they saw how the uncontrollable violence in Kathmandu forced the prime minister to resign.