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Meet India's feisty Gen Z protester who is taking on Modi

Neha Bora, a 29-year-old PhD student and theatre artist, has become a prominent figure in India's recent Gen Z-led protests. Bora, who uses they/them pronouns and has been involved with the Left-wing All India Students' Association for a decade, is actively participating in demonstrations seeking the resignation of India's top election official.

3 hours agoShareSaveAdd as preferred on GoogleGeeta PandeyWomen Affairs Editor, IndiaBBC News - WorldFiled 2026-10-09 · 07:19 GMTLean · CenterRead · 1 min
Meet India's feisty Gen Z protester who is taking on Modi
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Neha Bora, a 29-year-old PhD student and theatre artist, has become a prominent figure in India's recent Gen Z-led protests. Bora, who uses they/them pronouns and has been involved with the Left-wing All India Students' Association for a decade, is actively participating in demonstrations seeking the resignation of India's top election official. Viral videos have captured Bora's involvement, showing them being detained and engaging with police. Despite the attention, Bora downplays their individual visibility, stating that their actions are typical for student activists. These protests represent a significant challenge to Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government.

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Neha Bora stated that their actions are similar to other Left-wing student activists and the attention is due to cameras being present.

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Viral videos show Neha Bora being detained by police, climbing barricades, and shouting slogans.

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Neha Bora is a theatre artist and activist associated with the All India Students' Association (Aisa) for a decade, serving as its president for two years.

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Neha Bora, a 29-year-old PhD student, is a prominent face in Gen Z-led protests in Delhi seeking the resignation of India's top election official.

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The protests represent one of the biggest challenges to Prime Minister Narendra Modi's 12 years in power.

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When India's Gen Z-led protesters return to Delhi this weekend for demonstrations seeking the resignation of the country's top election official, one of the prominent faces at the forefront will be that of a 29-year-old PhD student.Neha Bora is a theatre artist and activist who has been with the All India Students' Association (Aisa), a Left-wing organisation known for campus politics, for the past decade and been its president for the past two years.But Neha's - who uses "they" and "them" as personal pronouns - visibility is no longer limited to campuses.Viral videos over the past few days show them being dragged through the street by a group of female police officials, climbing on top of police barricades, raising their fist and shouting slogans, and being detained.Photos of them smiling while being carried away by policewomen have also gone viral.In a recent BBC Bangla interview, Neha played down the attention they've been receiving."I know it happened in front of the camera so it seems like it's something different," they said. "But I have seen all student activists with the Left doing the same things that I have been doing. It's just that there is a camera on me, so people think something different is happening."The attention on Neha comes at a time when several high-profile protests are being held on India's streets in what is being seen as one of the biggest challenges to Prime Minister Narendra Modi's 12 years in power.
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