India, Aug. 3 -- It is not often that India's men in cassocks step out of its cathedrals and chapels and into the political square.

Rarer still is the sight of them at New Delhi's Jantar Mantar Road in white, not wearing the bush-shirts they usually don when attending meetings, not just protests.

A muggy, hot evening in July 2026 witnessed precisely such a convergence of ecclesiastical voice and civic protest that warrants more than a passing notice. Indeed, it needs to be celebrated, documented, even hailed.

What began in early June as a student-led agitation under the sarcastic banner of the Cockroach Janta Party - a dig at Indian Chief Justice Surya Kant's description of agitating Indian youth - demanding the resignation of Union E...