The Listening Post When India’s chief justice called young, unemployed people “cockroaches”, he could never have imagined that the slur would be turned into an online satirical movement: the Cockroach Janta Party. The CJP quickly went viral, quickly racking up tens of millions of followers. The movement reflects Gen Z’s frustration with unemployment, education systems and the shrinking space for free expression in India.

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