Three months is all it took for 30-year-old Abhijeet Dipke to rise from obscurity to national fame – a level of public recognition that most grassroots Indian activists and politicians spend a lifetime chasing, and many never achieve at all. Today, Dipke is the public face of India’s viral Gen Z ‘cockroach protests’, a grassroots movement that has already forced a high-profile government concession and emerged as one of the most significant challenges to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s administration in recent years.
We want to move beyond elections, face of India’s ‘cockroach’ movement tells BBC
