The Cockroaches’ protest has been one of the most positive developments in India says Tariq Ali

Many of these young cockroaches or Gen Zs who came out on the streets have been accused by a lot of people, especially older people, saying, why did you use abuses against the prime minister? And at the same time, the office of the prime minister and the government in general has gone after social media accounts and social media companies and said, scrub everything that makes fun of the prime minister. Now the thing to point out here is, as you said, many of these youngsters and their parents certainly would have been BJP supporters. And now they are using the ultimate weapon against which it is impossible to fight, which is ridicule and comedy. The Siddharth, it goes on in many parts of the world. You know, it's not a religious thing that this is some very great religion and the leader of this religion shouldn't be attacked, etc. I mean, the BJP themselves in their early days, as they were forming themselves and the RSS as well, used to mock all the leaders of the Indian National Congress they didn't agree with, including Gandhi. No one said to them, don't say this, till after Mahatma Gandhi was assassinated. No one said, don't say this. After that, they drew back a bit. They do it in private, they do it in public. So what is so special about you?