The ‘cockroaches’ marching on India’s government – podcast
Their anger erupted after leaks of exam papers forced millions of students to resit tests. But will this week’s concessions be enough to keep the Cockroach movement off the streets? Photograph: Rajat Gupta/EPAExplore more on these topicsIndiaToday in FocusSouth and central AsiaStudentsProtestNarendra Modi
- ▪Their anger erupted after leaks of exam papers forced millions of students to resit tests.
- ▪But will this week’s concessions be enough to keep the Cockroach movement off the streets?
- ▪Photograph: Rajat Gupta/EPAExplore more on these topicsIndiaToday in FocusSouth and central AsiaStudentsProtestNarendra Modi
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Today in FocusIndiaThe ‘cockroaches’ marching on India’s government – podcastMore ways to listenApple podcastsSpotifyRSS FeedDownloadPresented by Helen Pidd with Hannah Ellis-Petersen; produced by Saskia Collette, Alex Atack and Brian McNamara; executive producer Eli BlockThu 23 Jul 2026 22.00 EDTShare00:00:0000:00:00South Asia correspondent Hannah Ellis-Petersen on the Cockroach movement – and the students driving India’s biggest protests in years‘I’ve never seen this many young people out on the streets,’ says Hannah Ellis-Petersen.For days, tens of thousands of Indians have been marching under the banner of the Cockroach Janta party.The Guardian’s south Asia correspondent tells Helen Pidd the protesters are reclaiming a slur after India’s chief justice reportedly referred to unemployed…
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