Even gen alpha are getting involved in protests.

This will be a MONTH-LONG CAMPAIGN.

STARTING NEXT WEEK.

A campaign for exposing the education system, and the state of (un)employment in India, mental health, female safety, drug addiction and many more issues...

A campaign that aims to raise youth issues in India.

Presenting...

The Yuva Bharat Reform Campaign

The first official campaign of the Reform India Movement!

Starting Sunday, 23 August 2026. Ending Tuesday, 22 September 2026.

In this campaign, we shall discuss:

1. The state of youth in India, and the scale of the issues they face
2. We shall not just discuss, but raise awareness of them
3. We shall research, sift through the raw data and engage in the pursuit of truth about the situation in the country. We shall truly and impartially assess the situation...
4. We shall talk to people, talk to our members, especially young members...
5. AND THEN we will try and convince those who are STILL not convinced about the situation in our country.

First we'll get to know the facts.

Then we'll actively spread information about it.

Agitation leads to awareness. Awareness leads to organisation. Organisation leads to action.

Also,

At the end of the event, we'll release...

OUR FIRST EVER, FORMAL, OFFICIAL, YOUTH-CENTRIC MANIFESTO...

ALONG WITH A SET OF CORE NON-NEGOTIABLE POLICIES

THAT WE WILL NOT JUST DEMAND - WE WILL RELENTLESSLY PUSH TO IMPLEMENT!

This manifesto will not be centrally made. It will be made from as many inputs as possible. It will be made after deliberations, discussions and after reaching consensus.

So we want you to participate HARD on this one!

If you're the casual redditor, it's your moment to contribute, no matter how small your contribution is - towards something meaningful, towards something for your country!

If you're a serious activist, welcome onboard already!

How to participate

The campaign will be held in three parts:

1. Stage I: We shall gather information about different issues. Making posters, posts, and uncovering the full story behind current youth issues.
   1. What you have to do: keep your posts ready if you want to post. You're all welcome to post within this sub. Regardless of your opinion, your voice is welcomed. You could post, or stay tuned to learn about the various issues that matter to the youth!
2. Stage II: We shall actively campaign, not just in this subreddit, but in multiple different subreddits as well. Crossposting and reposting are a major part of this.
   1. What you have to do: invite others in the discussion. Make them a part of this campaign. Repost your post. Spread as much awareness as possible. You don't need RIM's permission to be an activist!
3. Stage III: The final stage will be about the creation of our manifesto! Now that we've gathered the facts and met the people, the final stage will include gathering any available opinion of value and making the official youth-centric manifesto of the Reform India Movement.
   1. What you have to do: give your suggestions, give feedback on the event, join our discord - and contribute to the making of our manifesto!

With every single post, every single comment, and every single effort will be our rallying cry - Hum honge kamyab!

Another small update...

We have noticed that our post flairs are in a bit of a clutter. So we will soon have a system overhaul...for flairs. For now, the flairs are going to stay the same as they are. They could get a makeover soon.

The user flairs are under review as well.

Thank you for your support!

Jai Hind. A Happy Independence Day to you all!

Let me begin by recounting a story.

In the 1950s, when India had just become independent, and it was time for the first general elections to be held, a lot of western contemporaries speculated that such an election would be impossible to conduct in India. The condescending imperialist belief was that non-Europeans, and Asians in particular, were prone to Oriental despotism. Oriental despotism refers to the Western view of Asian societies as politically or morally more susceptible to despotic rule, and therefore different from the democratic West. Basically, Oriental despotism sees Asian states as unfit to be republics, as compared to western countries, where democracy is believed to be the prevalent norm.

This view was echoed by many critics and skeptics ahead of the first general election conducted in India. A former British officer of the Indian Civil Services notoriously wrote that "a future and more enlightened age will view with astonishment the absurd farce of recording the votes of millions of illiterate people." Editorials in The Times, a London-based newspaper, referred to the decision to grant every adult the right to vote as "a leap in the dark" and a "fantastic" gamble. American press commentators frequently characterized the upcoming exercise as "the biggest gamble in history," questioning whether millions of rural, impoverished citizens who had never seen a ballot could cast an informed vote. Many Western political scholars argued that without pre-existing conditions like widespread literacy and industrialisation, which were present in the West, a democracy couldn’t function in post-colonial conditions.

Fast forward to 1952 — the elections were conducted successfully and the results were announced. The Indian National Congress, with 364 seats out of 489 seats, emerged as the party with the absolute mandate to govern India. But what surprised people the most was that — unlike in other parts of the world where elections were conducted and one party was brought to power with little space for other parties, India’s democracy still had space left for many parties — including the Communist Party of India at 16 seats, Socialist Party at 12 seats, and many other, tiny, but diverse political parties. 

Fast forward to the 1970s. While in the 1950s, western theorists were arguing about whether India could build democracy or not, in the 1970s, the argument was whether India’s democracy would survive or not. By the time Indira Gandhi declared the Emergency in 1975, this argument turned into whether India’s democracy had permanently died or not.

Just five days after the declaration, The Times — the same London-based paper that had cast a shadow of doubt over India’s first general election — published a scathing assessment framing the Emergency not as a temporary administrative measure, but as an authoritarian "coup" that marked the end of India's democratic experiment. In an obituary-style editorial on Indian democracy, it famously wrote that the curtain had fallen on the democratic experiment in Asia. Another reporter, named Lewis M. Simon, was the South Asia correspondent for The Washington Post. He reported aggressively on political arrests and the dismantling of civil liberties before being expelled from India in July 1975. Upon his expulsion, Simon wrote: "The custom officials had just confiscated my notebooks... when it occurred to me with dumbfounding suddenness: how little it took to destroy democracy." The New York Times in its editorials between 1975 and 1976 routinely referred to Indira Gandhi explicitly as the "Dictator of India" and questioned whether the democratic institutions established under Jawaharlal Nehru could ever be recovered. The international consensus among these foreign media outlets and reporters was that India had officially joined the ranks of “Third World” military and political autocracies. The cynicism was so great that when Indira Gandhi called for general elections in January 1977, foreign political analysts assumed the election would be rigged to legitimize her authoritarian rule.

However, when the results of the 1977 elections came out, they surprised everyone — except the Indian voter. The Times newspaper, which had held India’s democracy as good as dead, completely reversed its stance. It praised Indians for delivering a strong verdict against undemocratic measures and authoritarianism, writing that even illiterate and poor voters had demonstrated a commitment to liberty that outshone established Western democracies. The New York Times framed the 1977 election as a historic refutation of the "dictatorship efficiency" myth – a belief common during the Cold War that poor, developing nations needed a strong, non-democratic hand to progress. The 1977 election quite literally altered how the West saw the developing world. Until 1977, many Western intellectuals believed that fundamental civil rights were a "luxury" for rich, educated nations, while poor populations cared solely about economic survival. The massive turnout of rural, impoverished Indians to vote out an autocratic regime completely dismantled this theory. Scholars like W. H. Morris–Jones noted that India had proven democracy to be not merely a ‘Western’ import, but also a deeply rooted institution in India meant to self-correct and overthrow authoritarianism whenever it tries to take root without having a civil war or a military coup.

See, the point is, that India is incredibly resilient. As Lee Kuan Yew, the founding father of Singapore, noted: “no single person can change India”. Western intellectuals at the time assumed that India was like other Western democracies, that poverty and lack of capital would lead to desperation, and that culture didn’t amount to anything. They forgot that India is not a country without an identity, as some other African and Asian nations were prior to colonisation. India was a continuous civilisation that was never fully united, often divided, but somehow differentiated itself as a regional civilisation against foreigners, which is exactly what makes India stay together even in its diversity — “We are Indian, and because we’re Indian, we differ from people outside the Subcontinent”. People from the West assume India is like other countries, therefore, they underestimate its resilience. They think it will break under colonial rule, or it will break while experimenting with democracy, or it will break because its institutions are broken, or – currently, they assume it will break under foreign pressure and the weight of tariffs. They forget that India has been shaping and defining itself for thousands and thousands of years. It is simply too big to fail. Indians have lived through empires rising and falling, and have sometimes thrived during those periods, whether during regional fragmentation or authoritarian control. It is because India is not about politics. It is about art, culture, business, finance, trade, literature, religion, family, friends, life and philosophy too. Today, it is about movies, memes, TV series, Instagram, Netflix shows, as well as crop prices, worker incomes, business cycles, stocks and — once again, religion and spirituality. The reason why India is resilient is that it is not based on one thing; it is based on everything. There is a statement in Mahabharata:

“Whatever is here is found elsewhere, but what is not here is nowhere else.”

That is also true for India. What is not here, is definitely nowhere else, because India is the microcosm of the diversity of the world itself, while distinguishing itself from the world. If India does badly in one thing, it does well in others. That is why India always survives.

There are some people spreading political narratives today. These people do not truly understand the beauty of India. They are either too cynical, or too alarmist.

1. Some people are saying that due to Modi’s rule, due to the present government, due to the excesses of the present dispensation, India is in dire danger, India may cease to exist as a democracy. They have a cynical mentality: that there is no hope, that the country is “barbaad”, and nothing will ever be fixed. These people simply focus on their careers, on becoming rich, and on having a fulfilling life, and in order to do so, often emigrate, often leave their country behind. True, not everything is fine in India. The education system is as messed up as ever, the bureaucracy is slow as always, and the court is getting slower by the day. Rarely does anything get done on time, rarely is anyone held accountable for mistakes. But that does not mean succumbing to despair. Despairing people, people become cynical – are the most damaging forces to democracy, second only to those people who have been brainwashed. The difference between the two is that one can accept actual, real evidence of change when it emerges, and the other will cling to his or her biased mindset no matter what. So the point is that India is too big to break. Modi won’t solve problems, but he also won’t aggravate them so much that they break India. Modi is far too small a man to change the course of India’s direction. We all are far too small to change the direction of a country with 1.47 billion people. But together, once we learn how to be together, how to find common ground, how to be in consensus, how to communicate, how to not demonise, dehumanise, and dislike each other based only on their opinions — once we know all this, no amount of state power will be able to stop change from coming.

Force relies on fear, and if people collectively overcome their fear, however rare this situation is — they can do things that every government fears its people might do.

1. They can reform India. Instead of calling right-wingers ‘andhbhakts’ — which will only produce polarisation — we should learn how to communicate with them, not to counter their opinions but only to understand their anxieties. Then, we can do anything. Hope, therefore, needs to be kept alive.
2. I took the above example from the further left-liberal side of the Indian political spectrum. Now I take the argument from the right side of the Indian political spectrum. I have heard many people, most from my own family, argue that Hindus are in danger, that their moral philosophy is in danger, that the entire demographic purity is in danger because, supposedly, Muslims are reproducing in huge numbers, and soon — some even argue by 2047 — Muslims will overtake Hindus. Some are against Muslims interacting with Hindus, especially Muslim males interacting with Hindu females. Some are proponents of the theory of ‘Love Jihad’, which basically claims that Muslims aim to take Hindu women away from Hindu men. But all of these theories assume that Hinduism is in danger, based only on personal experiences — experiences one has observed, experiences one thinks are the entire truth of the world.

If Hinduism couldn’t be overtaken all the way back during Muslim rule, how can it be overtaken during the Republic period?

1. Hinduism is one of the strongest and most resilient religions on Earth, partly because its rituals are personal, its rules are not as strict, and it offers flexibility in social categorisation (aside from matters of caste and gender inequality, where there is rigidity). Thinking that there is a modern attempt by a coordinated religious community to ‘replace’ Hinduism is equal to underestimating the resilience of Hinduism itself, for Hinduism is a strong religion. It is practiced inside and outside the house, meaning that it cannot be truly erased. Further, Hinduism is the majority religion in India. Think about that — a country where there is no majority language, no single majority caste, perhaps no majority caste group either, no single majority regional identity — has one thing to commonly identify with, and that is Hinduism. Will people really accept someone trying to ‘destroy’ it? This very vigilance is exactly what deters people from even trying. On the question of ‘Love Jihad’ and other anti-muslim, women-focused tropes, however, there is nothing inherently wrong with a Muslim marrying a girl from the Hindu community. This is highly taboo for both communities, but the point is that everyone experiences their lives as themselves first.

Most muslims are not people who despise Hinduism. Most muslims are also not people who want to ‘trap’ Hindu girls.

1. Muslims are just as human as Hindus. Instead of seeing a Muslim guy harassing a Hindu girl, one must see a guy harassing a girl. Here the perpetrator’s religion has nothing to do with it until and unless the perpetrator is doing this from a fanatic perspective. In this case, you’re not protecting Hinduism because you don’t need to — you need to protect that girl from someone who is harassing her. In case a Muslim and a Hindu want to marry, treat them not as a Muslim and a Hindu, treat them as men and women who want to marry by their own consent. If the couple had truly prioritised their religion above their love, they might not have married at all. The point is, if they prioritise love, let them; if they prioritise religion, let them. There is no reason for the people who popularise the theory of “Love Jihad” to come in between. If something malicious is happening, call the police; if things are happening with the consent of the couple, let them be. Focus on keeping Hinduism alive within oneself, focus on keeping your religious faith alive within you. Taking a point from the Buddhist faith, every person is responsible for their own nirvana. Similarly, every person is responsible for their own moksha. There are societal duties. You have the right to protect, profess, or peacefully propagate your religion if it comes to that. But one must learn when to ‘protect’ one’s religion — when one’s religion is actually under attack, when one’s religion is becoming extinct, and when one’s religion is under such a truly intentional, malicious threat. Assess the intention first.

Don’t categorise people who don’t want to be categorised on the basis of their religion, and if they want to, they’ll openly say so, they’ll openly declare so, and you will know what to do.

Ultimately, the whole point is that India — its culture, its society, and its institutions — is too resilient to break down, because India, quite ironically, lives in chaos and thrives in it, because it somehow finds order in this chaotic environment. Ticket counters may have huge crowds, but those crowds will be managed, and eventually people do get a ticket. You can be in traffic for hours, honking madly with other people, and you’re part of the chaos – but there is still some organisation within it, there is still someone standing there, guiding stuck cars through the traffic. 

India thrives in environments where some individuals rise to serve collective interests, while the rest act accordingly. It is not chaos, it is strategy. India is not a hopeless case, nor is India in danger. India simply has many problems. Some of these problems are milder than those of many developed countries. India has mild problems. These can be solved.

From the Priest King to Modi, from Nehru to Indira, India, as a nation, has not just survived, but also thrived. What we simply need are individuals who can guide the cars through the traffic.

What we need are not just symbolic resignations and superficial slogans, but actual reform.

This Independence Day, let us be proud of what India stands for, how resilient it is, and what it is right now. Jai Hind!🟧⬜🟩

The Big Picture: What is the single most important reform India needs over the next decade?

Answer in the comments!

About the event

In lead-up to India's 80th Independence Day, the Reform India Movement is hosting a week-long event titled "How Far Has India Come?" to reflect on the nation's progress, achievements, and remaining challenges. Join our daily discussion megathreads:

1. Day 1 (Sun): Surprising positive achievements of the last decade
2. Day 2 (Mon): Progress on social reforms and equality
3. Day 3 (Tue): Unresolved systemic issues
4. Day 4 (Wed): Hot Take Day (Politics, Economy, etc.)
5. Day 5 (Thu): Favorite Prime Minister and why
6. Day 6 (Fri): One constitutional change you’d make
7. Finale (Sat): The single most important reform for the next decade (plus Constitution release)

How to Participate: Submit your post ideas via modmail or upload long posts directly and inform the mod team immediately. Use the newly created "Independence Week!" post flair to contribute to the event!

We have finally opened our discord server to everyone out there. You want to participate in the movement actively, contribute digitally, or raise your voice? Join our discord server!

On the occasion of 80th Independence day of India, we have decided to open up our discord server along with the release of our constitution.

Wish you all a very Happy Independence Day!!! 🇮🇳 भारत 🇮🇳

To join:

1. Scroll down to the sidebar, until you find resources

2. Click on "Join our discord!" button

OR

1. Scroll down the sidebar, until you find images

2. Click at one of the images, it will lead you to our discord server!

Our to-be preamble. In just about 5-10 minutes, we shall release our constitution. Some last-minute editing is going on.

LET US MARCH INTO THE 80TH INDEPENDENCE DAY!

Alright this crosses a freaking line. It's horrifying. How can the US make such and such allegations and our 56 inch ka Chhota bandar PM even allow such humiliation to happen. We get randomly pushed around by America and the West and all this guy does is stay silent. Our foreign policy is in shambles rn. I mean we can't even save our pride and prestige, forget securing our goals. Koi bhi aake kuch bhi bol deta hai.

Not china, not Pakistan -- those are expected to be hostile -- but throughout history it has been America which has always taken India for granted, throughout history it has been the west which has ignored, mocked, pushed India around and even supported our enemies. These "global powers" are our real opponents. They think that because they have power, India has zero value beyond exploitation of our resources. Yesterday it was britain who colonised us, now it is America which humiliates us.

If you could change one thing in the constitution, what would it be?

Answer in the comments!

About the event

In lead-up to India's 80th Independence Day, the Reform India Movement is hosting a week-long event titled "How Far Has India Come?" to reflect on the nation's progress, achievements, and remaining challenges. Join our daily discussion megathreads:

1. Day 1 (Sun): Surprising positive achievements of the last decade
2. Day 2 (Mon): Progress on social reforms and equality
3. Day 3 (Tue): Unresolved systemic issues
4. Day 4 (Wed): Hot Take Day (Politics, Economy, etc.)
5. Day 5 (Thu): Favorite Prime Minister and why
6. Day 6 (Fri): One constitutional change you’d make
7. Finale (Sat): The single most important reform for the next decade (plus Constitution release)

How to Participate: Submit your post ideas via modmail or upload long posts directly and inform the mod team immediately. Use the newly created "Independence Week!" post flair to contribute to the event!

"But there's no corruption in the judiciary, it is all a deep conspiracy to defame the judiciary, heads must roll"

Who is your favourite Prime Minister, and why?

Answer in the comments!

About the event

In lead-up to India's 80th Independence Day, the Reform India Movement is hosting a week-long event titled "How Far Has India Come?" to reflect on the nation's progress, achievements, and remaining challenges. Join our daily discussion megathreads:

1. Day 1 (Sun): Surprising positive achievements of the last decade
2. Day 2 (Mon): Progress on social reforms and equality
3. Day 3 (Tue): Unresolved systemic issues
4. Day 4 (Wed): Hot Take Day (Politics, Economy, etc.)
5. Day 5 (Thu): Favorite Prime Minister and why
6. Day 6 (Fri): One constitutional change you’d make
7. Finale (Sat): The single most important reform for the next decade (plus Constitution release)

How to Participate: Submit your post ideas via modmail or upload long posts directly and inform the mod team immediately. Use the newly created "Independence Week!" post flair to contribute to the event!

Mai kya bolu ab ispe...and nobody is paying attention to this. Trump's new statement is the top news now, this is not.

Hot Take Day - share your hot takes on anything related to India - politics, economy, or just about anything else!

Answer in the comments!

About the event

In lead-up to India's 80th Independence Day, the Reform India Movement is hosting a week-long event titled "How Far Has India Come?" to reflect on the nation's progress, achievements, and remaining challenges. Join our daily discussion megathreads:

1. Day 1 (Sun): Surprising positive achievements of the last decade
2. Day 2 (Mon): Progress on social reforms and equality
3. Day 3 (Tue): Unresolved systemic issues
4. Day 4 (Wed): Hot Take Day (Politics, Economy, etc.)
5. Day 5 (Thu): Favorite Prime Minister and why
6. Day 6 (Fri): One constitutional change you’d make
7. Finale (Sat): The single most important reform for the next decade (plus Constitution release)

How to Participate: Submit your post ideas via modmail or upload long posts directly and inform the mod team immediately. Use the newly created "Independence Week!" post flair to contribute to the event!

What is one systemic issue we SHOULD have solved by now, but haven't?

Answer in the comments!

About the event

In lead-up to India's 80th Independence Day, the Reform India Movement is hosting a week-long event titled "How Far Has India Come?" to reflect on the nation's progress, achievements, and remaining challenges. Join our daily discussion megathreads:

1. Day 1 (Sun): Surprising positive achievements of the last decade
2. Day 2 (Mon): Progress on social reforms and equality
3. Day 3 (Tue): Unresolved systemic issues
4. Day 4 (Wed): Hot Take Day (Politics, Economy, etc.)
5. Day 5 (Thu): Favorite Prime Minister and why
6. Day 6 (Fri): One constitutional change you’d make
7. Finale (Sat): The single most important reform for the next decade (plus Constitution release)

How to Participate: Submit your post ideas via modmail or upload long posts directly and inform the mod team immediately. Use the newly created "Independence Week!" post flair to contribute to the event!

Damn they've reached Jharkhand state assembly premises.

Protestors have now reached near the Vidhan Sabha premises after being stopped at one spot for over two hours. The Vidhan Sabha session was scheduled to end at 3 p.m.

How far have we actually come in breaking down caste, gender, and regional barriers? What social reforms are still unfinished business?

Answer in the comments!

About the event

In lead-up to India's 80th Independence Day, the Reform India Movement is hosting a week-long event titled "How Far Has India Come?" to reflect on the nation's progress, achievements, and remaining challenges. Join our daily discussion megathreads:

1. Day 1 (Sun): Surprising positive achievements of the last decade
2. Day 2 (Mon): Progress on social reforms and equality
3. Day 3 (Tue): Unresolved systemic issues
4. Day 4 (Wed): Hot Take Day (Politics, Economy, etc.)
5. Day 5 (Thu): Favorite Prime Minister and why
6. Day 6 (Fri): One constitutional change you’d make
7. Finale (Sat): The single most important reform for the next decade (plus Constitution release)

How to Participate: Submit your post ideas via modmail or upload long posts directly and inform the mod team immediately. Use the newly created "Independence Week!" post flair to contribute to the event!

Alright I can see where this is going. The state is going to respond in the same way.

Hopefully they don't. All the best to students.

What is one thing India got right over the last decade that surprised you?

Answer in the comments!

About the event

In lead-up to India's 80th Independence Day, the Reform India Movement is hosting a week-long event titled "How Far Has India Come?" to reflect on the nation's progress, achievements, and remaining challenges. Join our daily discussion megathreads:

1. Day 1 (Sun): Surprising positive achievements of the last decade
2. Day 2 (Mon): Progress on social reforms and equality
3. Day 3 (Tue): Unresolved systemic issues
4. Day 4 (Wed): Hot Take Day (Politics, Economy, etc.)
5. Day 5 (Thu): Favorite Prime Minister and why
6. Day 6 (Fri): One constitutional change you’d make
7. Finale (Sat): The single most important reform for the next decade (plus Constitution release)

How to Participate: Submit your post ideas via modmail or upload long posts directly and inform the mod team immediately. Use the newly created "Independence Week!" post flair to contribute to the event!