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India’s cockroach movement did more than turn humiliation into humour. It challenged the power to decide what legitimate dissent should feel like. Its irreverent politics also belongs to a wider Gen Z vocabulary of resistance moving across South Asia from screens into the streets.

The student protests in India reflected youth anger against the repeated examination paper leaks over the past decade. Image: Tahir Bhat

India’s cockroach movement did more than turn humiliation into humour. It challenged the power to decide what legitimate dissent should feel like. Its irreverent politics also belongs to a wider Gen Z vocabulary of resistance moving across South Asia from screens into the streets.

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