India: cockroach uprising

As the trajectory of his Hindu nationalist party stalled, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched the biggest gerrymandering attempt in world history. Now young protesters are in the streets.
In the face of protest against Bharatiya Janata Party incompetence and corruption, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s party is not yet defeated, but it is on the defensive, writes Gwynne Dyer.Photograph courtesy of Wikimedia Commons
Opinion
BY GWYNNE DYER
October 15, 2026

LONDON, U.K.—India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi is technically not upper caste, but he does have a high opinion of himself. “When my mother was alive, I used to believe that I was born biologically,” Modi told an interviewer two years ago. “After she passed away,...

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