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The Cockroach and the Crown
A joke became a movement. But was there a plan behind the momentum?
On May 15, a top judge in India compared unemployed young people to “cockroaches” in open court.
The next day, someone turned it into a joke page online — the Cockroach Janta Party. Within a week, ten million people were following it.
What began as a punchline started behaving like a movement. The question is whether anything was organised behind it, or whether momentum was the whole plan.