FO Exclusive: India’s Youth Cockroach Protests Rattle Prime Minister Narendra Modi
A leaked medical entrance exam affecting 2.2 million students sparked weeks of protests, hunger strikes and police clashes before the minister stepped down.
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FO Exclusive: India’s Youth Cockroach Protests Rattle Prime Minister Narendra Modi
Editor-in-Chief Atul Singh and FOI Senior Partner Glenn Carle, a retired CIA officer who now advises companies, governments and organizations on geopolitical risk, examine how India’s “cockroach protests” have become a powerful symbol of youth frustration with Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government. The movement took its name after Chief Justice Surya Kant made remarks in May that many interpreted as comparing unemployed young Indians to “co…
Cockroaches as Civil Sphere?
New Delhi: The streets of Delhi witnessed an unprecedented social movement with youth solidarity across class, caste region, ethnicity and religion. Tens of thousands of young Indians calling themselves the “Cockroach Janata Party” were protesting not just exam leaks or unemployment, but claiming to protect something far deeper: the very soul of India’s democracy. For past few decades, India has witnessed a dialectical struggle between two compe…
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