{"id":932748,"date":"2026-09-08T13:21:01","date_gmt":"2026-09-08T18:21:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/08\/cockroach-democracy-arundhati-roy-on-indias-youth-led-protest-movement-modis-collapsing-support\/"},"modified":"2026-09-08T13:21:01","modified_gmt":"2026-09-08T18:21:01","slug":"cockroach-democracy-arundhati-roy-on-indias-youth-led-protest-movement-modis-collapsing-support","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/08\/cockroach-democracy-arundhati-roy-on-indias-youth-led-protest-movement-modis-collapsing-support\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Cockroach Democracy&#8221;: Arundhati Roy on India&#8217;s Youth-Led Protest Movement &#038; Modi&#8217;s Collapsing Support"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A youth-led protest movement in India is demanding an end to the country\u2019s status quo. Sparked by the leak of national exam questions, tens of thousands of young people have taken to the streets. They are protesting under the banner of the Cockroach Janta (People\u2019s) Party \u2014 a new party named to reflect the words of India\u2019s chief justice&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.democracynow.org\/2026\/7\/24\/india_cockroach_movement_arundhati_roy\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><br \/>\n Buffy Mcnaught<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A youth-led protest movement in India is demanding an end to the country\u2019s status quo. Sparked by the leak of national exam questions, tens of thousands of young people have taken to the streets. They are protesting under the banner of the Cockroach Janta (People\u2019s) Party \u2014 a new party named to reflect the words<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":932749,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[78687,46694,192],"tags":[123489,20160],"class_list":["post-932748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cockroach","category-democracy","category-sports","tag-cockroach","tag-democracy"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/932748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=932748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/932748\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/932749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=932748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=932748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=932748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}