In Conversation with Neha Bora: Does NEP-2020 aid or destroy GenZ’s dreams? | In Focus Podcast

Neha Bora has emerged as a charismatic student leader and one of the key faces of the Jantar Mantar protests. She is the national president of AISA, the All India Students Association, which is affiliated with the Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Liberation.We speak with her about the impact of the National Education Policy (NEP), 2020 on India’s higher education system, what it means to be a leftwing student leader in India, and the challenges in mobilising students and working class youth for social justice in a scenario of shrinking spaces for dissent and civil liberties.Host: G SampathProducer: Shiksha JuralCamera: Jude WestonFor more episodes of In Focus: Published - August 05, 2026 10:14 pm IST