Cockroach Protests Expose Cracks in Modi's Grip on India

In the sweltering streets of Delhi, a generation of young Indians who had been called cockroaches by their own chief justice turned that insult into a movement, forcing the resignation of the education minister and briefly cracking the armor of Narendra Modi's long-dominant government. The grievances were not abstract — leaked exam papers sold to the wealthy, universities in decay, and at least twelve students who took their own lives rather than face the injustice of retaking a corrupted test. What began as a sardonic social media joke became a rare public reckoning, reminding the world that