India's Cockroach Revolution: A Victory for Youth Power In a stunning display of grassroots mobilization, India's youth led protests have achieved what many thought impossible: forcing the resignation of a key government minister and extracting concessions from the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party.
The movement began as a social media parody of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's BJP but tapped into the deep seated frustrations of young people with the government's handling of an alleged exam paper leak.
The controversy, which has been simmering since May, erupted into full blown protests in recent weeks, fueled by tragic events such as student deaths after allegedly being driven to despair by the exam paper leak.