From the internet to the streets: Resisting the violation of digital rights as a means of crushing protests in India

Felt on the Skin: Experiencing the State Violence and the Limits of Secular Solidarity

Over the past few months, a great deal of commentary in India has celebrated the Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) mobilization as proof that something has finally cracked in the BJP’s machinery of rule. The argument goes like this: for the first time in years, we have a genuinely cross-caste, cross-religious, cross-regional youth movement, students are […]

From the internet to the streets: Resisting the violation of digital rights as a means of crushing protests in India

The Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) is a youth-led Indian satirical political movement prompted after India’s chief justice, while discussing unemployed young people and fraudulent qualifications, compared them to cockroaches in July 2026. What started as an online reaction r, soon led to demonstrations in several cities across the country. But just as the protests quickly escalated from online spaces to the streets, there was backlash also on both …