India’s cockroach movement brought down a minister. Bringing real reform will be much harder

Over the past few weeks, young people have mobilised to protest India’s broken education system, against the background of a shortage of job opportunities. The protests were initially sparked by the cancellation of a medical school entrance exam after questions were leaked, leading some despondent young people to take their own lives. The movement repurposed the image of a cockroach as their symbol – inspired by a comment by India’s chief justice, allegedly comparing jobless young people to…