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![Cockroach Democracy: Arundhati Roy on Indias Youth-Led Protest Movement, Modis Crumbling Support
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A youth-led protest movement in India is demanding an end to the countrys status quo. Sparked by the leak of national exam questions, tens of thousands of young people have taken to the streets. They are protesting under the banner of the Cockroach Janta (Peoples) Party — a new party named to reflect the words of Indias chief justice, who compared unemployed youth to cockroaches and parasites. The movement has only swelled in response to a violent crackdown on protesters. Although the protesters initial demands were for the resignation of the countrys education minister, everything has shifted to directly attacking [Prime Minister Narendra] Modi, says Indian writer Arundhati Roy, who joins us from New Delhi, the physical center of a movement that first found exponential success online. The erosion of democratic principles under Modis right-wing Bharatiya Janata (Indian Peoples) Party is being contested on a large scale for the first time, says Roy. Its really a generation whose parents and grandparents wore those Modi masks and chanted Modi, Modi, Modi, and got him into power. It is their children now who are saying the emperor has no clothes.
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