For weeks India's government has done its best to ignore escalating protests by young people calling themselves 'cockroaches', after a slur by the country's top judge.
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For weeks India’s government has done its best to ignore escalating protests by young people calling themselves ‘cockroaches’, after a slur by the country’s top judge.
That changed late on Thursday night, when Prime Minister Narendra Modi put out a video promising a tough new law on exam paper leaks, the issue that fuelled their anger.
At talks on Friday, the government asked for a day to decide on the protesters’ biggest demand: the education minister’s resignation.
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