The recent Maha Vikas Aghadi protest saw morcha veterans, older political leaders who had demonstrated decades earlier, decoding modern agitations, according to a report in this paper. Today is the time of high-decibel sound systems, high-definition cameras and SUVs packed with karyakartas streaming into the city.

Tracing the trajectory of morchas, some leaders commented on how vehicles now bring karyakartas to protest sites, something unheard of in earlier times. Participants are given food and water, which was also not the case earlier.