When the writer V.S. Naipaul traveled across India decades ago, he famously described the country as a land of a million mutinies, fracturing into myriad localized particularities, each subcaste and interest group with its own sectarian voice. Recent events in India, however, show how a splintered society can start to coalesce.
The fierce, Generation Z-led revolt that spilled over last month was directed squarely at Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government. The movement, which initially christened itself the Cockroach Janta Party in a satirical response to a derogatory remark by India’s chief justice, picked up young people’s anger over leaked exam papers and brought tens of thousands of protesters to the streets of New Delhi to march toward Parliament.
When the writer V.S. Naipaul traveled across India decades ago, he famously described the country as a land of a million mutinies, fracturing into myriad localized particularities, each subcaste and interest group with its own sectarian voice. Recent events in India, however, show how a splintered society can start to coalesce.
The fierce, Generation Z-led revolt that spilled over last month was directed squarely at Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government. The movement, which initially christened itself the Cockroach Janta Party in a satirical response to a derogatory remark by India’s chief justice, picked up young people’s anger over leaked exam papers and brought tens of thousands of protesters to the streets of New Delhi to march toward Parliament.
