New Delhi, June 22 -- There is something almost poetic about the fact that it took a senior judge of the Supreme Court of India, the highest temple of constitutional democracy, to accidentally spark one of the most electric youth movements the country has seen in years. On the 15th of May 2026, Chief Justice Surya Kant, during a hearing, reportedly compared unemployed young people to "cockroaches" -parasites without purpose, clogging the arteries of a productive nation.

He later clarified that he was targeting those with fraudulent degrees, not the country's restless youth. Yet, within twenty-four hours, Abhijeet Dipke, a thirty-year-old communications student at Boston University and former Aam Aadmi Party worker, had set up the Cockroa...