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Indian activist Sonam Wangchuk has ended his 26-day hunger strike, but protesters in India’s Cockroach movement say they will continue demonstrating until the education minister
Demands from young people and Cockroach Janta Party pose one of the biggest challenges to PM Modi’s government.
South Asia correspondent Hannah Ellis-Petersen on the Cockroach movement – and the students driving India’s biggest protests in years
From New York to London, supporters of “cockroach” protests are going global, amplifying a movement in India that has become one of the biggest challenges to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government.
India’s government will likely quell the student-led Cockroach protests, but it will have a harder time suppressing the underlying frustration fueling them, prominent Indian commentators argued.