Aruni Kashyap on India’s Cockroach Youth Movement

On the Fiction/Non/Fiction podcast, Literary Hub talks with novelist Aruni Kashyap about his new book and the surprising rise of India's Cockroach People's Party. The satirical movement took off after the country's chief justice likened unemployed youth to cockroaches and parasites, and a student's joke post sparked a viral response. Kashyap says the group now has about twenty-two million online followers, and he credits its humor and creativity for breaking through divisive political rhetoric. He also discusses the resignation of India's education minister as a major victory, and reads from his novel, How to Date a Fanatic, which follows queer academics during campus protests.

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