Where Does India’s Cockroach Movement Go From Here?
India’s burgeoning youth-led protest movement won a key victory over the weekend with the resignation of the country’s Education Minister, Dharmendra Pradhan. The Cockroach Movement, which took its name from a derogatory remark made by India’s Chief Justice comparing young unemployed people to "cockroaches” and “parasites,” has quickly established itself as a formidable political force.
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India’s burgeoning youth-led protest movement won a key victory over the weekend with the resignation of the country’s Education Minister, Dharmendra Pradhan. The Cockroach Movement, which took its name from a derogatory remark made by India’s Chief Justice comparing young unemployed people to "cockroaches” and “parasites,” has quickly established itself as a formidable political force. You can read our primer on it here. To discuss the movement and its future, TIME spoke with Mukul Kesavan, a historian, novelist, and one of India’s best-known writers.
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- India’s burgeoning youth-led protest movement won a key victory over the weekend with the resignation of the country’s Education Minister, Dharmendra Pradhan. The Cockroach Movement, which took its name from a derogatory remark made by India’s Chief Justice comparing young unemployed people to "cockroaches” and “parasites,” has quickly established itself as a formidable political force.
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