I spent a week with India's 'cockroach' protesters
It began with a fear familiar to millions of young Indians: if the examinations that determine their future cannot be trusted, what can? Weeks later
It began with a fear familiar to millions of young Indians: if the examinations that determine their future cannot be trusted, what can? Weeks later, tens of thousands of young men and women tried to march on India's parliament.
Police responded with tear gas and baton charges. Thousands more have returned to the streets in the days since. The Cockroach Janta Party (CJP), a
youth-led movement, which started out as a meme on social media, born out of anger over repeated examination paper leaks, quickly became India's biggest student
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