Cockroach Chronicles: Making Sense of the CJP | Fair Observer

So the last month or so, we've been hearing more and more about the rise of the Cockroach Janata Party, or CJP.

We've heard about the Chief Justice Suryakant, whose comment about the unemployed youth of India being like cockroaches seemed to spark a movement.

We've heard about the founder of the movement, Abhijit Dipke, a student who's just finished his master's degree at Boston University and returned to New Delhi We've heard about Sonam Wangchuk, the famous activist and educationalist, who was actually the inspiration for the character Wang Du played by Amir Khan in the movie The Three Idiots.

Wangchuk has lent his support to the cause and fasted for 26 days.

We've heard about the education minister, Dharmendra Pradhan, who the students are demanding accept responsibility for the leaks of national exam papers.

which are critical to attaining higher education and later jobs.

The students are demanding that he resign.

But India, and perhaps more specifically mainstream press, often seems to get caught up in individual personalities and politics at the expense of seriously analyzing the underlying causes.

There has even been some online chatter that foreign forces foreign forces are instigating or supporting the CJP.

However, there seems to be ample evidence and evidence.

However, there seems to be ample reason and evidence that this movement is propelled by long-standing, deep-seated grievances.

Arun, you were born and educated in New Delhi.

and you've spent most of your working life here, first in the corporate world and then in the field of education, promoting education for the underprivileged.

How does your experience, both professional and personal, explain the rise of the Cockroach Party?