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At a time when communal rhetoric from the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and its acolytes in the media has reached fever pitch, India’s youth are pushing back in creative and unforgettable ways. The recent protest at Jantar Mantar was a powerful  expression of that resistance, and the BJP government under prime minister Narendra Modi and Union home minister Amit Shah saw very clearly that Gen Z has refused to accept religious polarisation as the inevitable reality of public life.

On Friday (August 28), Rakshabandhan, a group of young people spent the day on the steps of Jama Masjid in New Delhi, tying colourful sauhard ke dhaage (threads of harmony) around the wrists of everyone they met: Hindus, Muslims, Sikhs and Christians alike (quite literally tying together the threads of communal harmony that others are trying to pull apart.) They were met not with suspicion or hostility, but with smiles and warmth.

Sauhard Ke Dhaage is a tradition that members of the Krantikari Yuva Sangathan (KYS) have carried forward every........

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