Modi’s BJP once controlled media narratives in India, but this might be changing with the ‘Cockroach’ movement.
India’s Cockroach Movement came out of nowhere to become a formidable political force in just a few weeks. TIME speaks with Indian writer and historian Mukul Kesavan about what comes next.
What started as an online satire campaign, The Cockroach Janta Party has become one of the most unexpected challenges to Narendra Modi's government.
The movement, born just over two months ago as a satirical online campaign, has quickly swelled into a formidable real-world political force ...
Over the past few weeks, young people have mobilised to protest India’s broken education system, against the background of a shortage of job opportunities. The protests were initially sparked by the ...
Silence descended over Jantar Mantar and the adjoining Parliament Street in central New Delhi at midnight, hours after the Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) called off its agitation following the ...
Supporters of the Cockroach Janta Party push against a barricade as they attempt to march to India's Parliament, demanding the resignation of the education minister, in New Delhi, Monday, July 20, ...
“If standing against a broken system makes me a cockroach, then I accept being called a cockroach,” Beauty Giri, 25, told Newsweek among thousands of protesters at New Delhi’s Jantar Mantar, a ...
CJP says it instead plans to preserve its independence and press whichever party is in power for change. Read more at ...
India's youth-led Cockroach Janta Party movement said on Monday a federal minister had promised the government ​would weigh its demands as thousands of protesters marched on parliament despite police ...