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POLITICSELEVATEDAug 12 · Aug 12, 2026, 9:30 PM

The word India’s ‘cockroach’ protests missed can be found in China

South China Morning Post

At Jantar Mantar, New Delhi’s designated protest site, India’s future spent weeks enduring the heat and demanding change. But what kind of change, and why? These were young people, many of them highly educated but still without a job despite sitting numerous government recruitment exams. Their anger was not because they had been cheated. It stemmed from worse: their qualifications had simply stopped meaning anything. China has a word for this dilemma. India does not, and that missing word...

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