Young Indians frustrated by unemployment and exam scandals are rallying behind an unusual symbol: the cockroach. NPR's Diaa Hadid reports from New Delhi.
The Indian movement Cockroach Janata Party born as a viral and satirical phenomenon online at its first demonstration in New Delhi Square. The anger of young people born from irregularities in the May exams soon turned into a wider contest against the Indian educational system and the scarcity of job opportunities
Seventeen-year-old Saurav Kushwaha, carrying only a change of clothes, boarded an overnight train with his older brother to New Delhi on Saturday morning from their village in Madhya Pradesh, central India. The brothers rested on the sidewalk, waiting for Abhijeet Dipke to arrive from the United States.