Like high-adrenaline scenes out of a Mad Max film that keep viewers spellbound, the secular protest movement of the Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) drew its high-octane fuel from social media, leaving a cyber-focused government looking for an exit ramp.

The young protesters in Delhi and elsewhere deployed creative chaos using just mobile phones in the face of indefensible violence by people in uniform and hostility from television networks.

What the government apparently forgot is that social media thrives on antagonisms, not propaganda. Unwittingly, it played into the hands of algorithms.

Social Media's New Reality

The question to ask is whether the lesson has been learnt after all, given the systematic efforts to use governmental authority to block the videos and........

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