Reposted by Sadanand Dhume
This is very good, by @dhume.bsky.social @cfr.org
The Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) is often compared with the 2011 Arab Spring
But a “more instructive comparison is India’s own protest wave of the mid-1970s”
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India’s Cockroach Party Protests Have a Powerful Precedent—and It Isn’t the Arab Spring | Council on Foreign Relations
Global media have likened India’s Cockroach Janta Party movement to the Arab Spring and to the uprisings that toppled governments in Nepal, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka. A more instructive comparison is I...