The ‘cockroaches’ marching on India’s government – podcast

Friday 24th July 2026

South Asia correspondent Hannah Ellis-Petersen on the Cockroach movement – and the students driving India’s biggest protests in years

‘I’ve never seen this many young people out on the streets,’ says Hannah Ellis-Petersen.

For days, tens of thousands of Indians have been marching under the banner of the Cockroach Janta party.