Tom Sasse
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129 appearances
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 12 Jun
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Last Saturday morning, Abhaj Dipka arrived in Delhi straight off the plane from Boston and staged a protest in the forty degree heat.
I got down there around eleven AM and found lots of young people chanting and banging drums.
Until recently, Dipka was a thirty year old Indian communications consultant living in Boston in America, who is fond of posting memes on the internet.
Now he's accidentally found himself at the helm of a movement.
His cockroach People's Party began as a joke in response to a nasty comment made by the Chief Justice of India's Supreme Court, comparing India's many jobless young people to cockroaches.
But the joke quickly spiraled.
The party has attracted millions of followers online.
So I asked Anorag, a guy in his thirties who was wearing a cockroach mask, to explain exactly this to me.
Lots of people I met at the protest were angry about two specific education scandals.
One involving a leaked medical entrance exam paper, the other involving the credibility of a whole exam board.
So that's why they were calling for the education minister to resign.
But the cockroach party is trying to make a bigger argument, really, that these two scandals reflect a broken system that is failing young Indians.
Well, Rosie, the street really matters in Indian politics.
Many of the country's political heroes have really forged their reputations there by amassing giant crowds with the drums and the slogans and the placards.
Of course, you think of Mahatma Gandhi.
Also B.
R.
Ambedkar, who secured the rights for Dalits by organizing these giant street rallies, and also Narendra Modi.
He cut his teeth as a student organizer and protests played a big role in him coming to power nationally in twenty fourteen.
the previous Congress government was docked by corruption scandals and a huge street movement emerged with hunger strikes and so on.
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