How India's 'cockroach' movement became a nationwide protest

India's youth-led "cockroach" movement began as an online joke but quickly grew into a nationwide protest. It started in May, when India's top judge referred to some unemployed young people as parasites and cockroaches during a hearing. The remarks sparked outrage, with many embracing the label in defiance. What followed became one of the country's biggest recent displays of public dissent, expanding beyond unemployment to wider frustrations with Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government.

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