Powerful Asian leaders like Narendra Modi and Xi Jinping are preoccupied by the prospect of young people upsetting the social order. They have legitimate cause for concern.

The party was launched after India’s Chief Justice Surya Kant referred to some unemployed youngsters as ‘parasites’ and ‘cockroaches’.

The spiny, long-legged, and often reviled cockroach has become an unlikely symbol of dissent, in a sharp rebuke to the ruling establishment in the world's largest democracy.