‘I will die for this cause’: how India’s cockroach meme became the biggest challenge to Modi’s grip on power
Prime minister’s propaganda machine falters as fiercely secular youth protests reclaim nationalismby Hannah Ellis-Petersen in DelhiAs the poster bearing the face of the prime minister, Narendra Modi, was thrown to the floor, a cheer went up. Then came the feet, trampling the image into the muddy ground with gleeful abandon. “Thief, thief,” chanted the crowd.Just a week earlier, such scenes in the heart of India’s capital would have been almost unthinkable. For the 12 years Modi and his Bharatiya Janata…
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