India’s Cockroach Movement Gains Momentum

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India's youth unemployment crisis has spawned an unlikely protest movement: the Cockroach Janta Party, a satirical political outfit that has struck a nerve with jobless young people. The movement, which uses dark humor and absurdist messaging to mock both the government and the political establishment, has grown from a fringe joke into a genuine vehicle for expressing rage about the country's failure to create employment. The party's provocative name and tongue-in-cheek platform, which positions cockroaches as the real inheritors of India's future, resonates because it speaks a language of frustration that traditional opposition parties haven't captured. Youth unemployment remains stubbornly high, and the Cockroach Janta Party has become a pressure valve for a generation that feels abandoned by the political system.