In the spring of 2026, a single satirical question typed by a Boston graduate student in a moment of idle frustration became the seed of a nationwide reckoning in India. Abhijeet Dipke, 30, channeled a chief justice's careless metaphor into the Cockroach Janta Party, a movement that drew millions of young Indians — united across caste and creed by shared economic despair and grief over exam scandals that had already cost more than twenty lives. Within ten weeks, India's education minister had resigned, marking one of the fastest capitulations in recent Indian political memory. The harder work
From Boston to Delhi: How a Gen Z activist forced India's education minister to resign
More than 20 students took their own lives following a national medical entrance exam question-paper leak; dozens of protesters were injured during police dispersal using tear gas and pellet guns.