The Cockroach Janta Party has crept onto the political scene at a time when Indian democracy is struggling.

Why hunger strikes still shape Indian politics, from Gandhi to Sonam Wangchuk.

India's Cockroach Janata Party began life as a series of internet memes and has grown into a real-life movement, bringing together young people angry about unemployment and alleged exam fraud. What ...

Cockroach Janta party began as online joke but is growing into one of the most unexpected challenges to country’s rightwing government ...

On 22 June 2026, India’s Ministry of Home Affairs adopted the Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Amendment Rules granting the ...

Understanding Hunger Strikes as Political Tools Hunger strikes represent a unique method of political protest, relying on the ...

Mohammed Rizwan is angered at the growing anti-Muslim crimes in India. “I cannot even post on social media now,” said the 21-year-old engineering student living in India’s West Bengal state. “It ...

Hundreds gathered in the Indian capital New Delhi as part of the online political movement, Cockroach Janta Party (CJP). The protesters called for the country's education minister to resign over ...

In constituting a panel to study demographic changes in India, the Centre was guided by a paranoid mindset that saw devious conspiracies everywhere. The move gave shape and substance to a thought ...