India’s youthful cockroach protests have defanged the ruling regime’s primary tools of governance: fear, alienation and division

A youth-led protest movement poses a unique challenge to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who has spent years consolidating power in the world’s largest democracy.

India’s Cockroach Movement came out of nowhere to become a formidable political force in just a few weeks. TIME speaks with Indian writer and historian Mukul Kesavan about what…