一款基于网络的多人游戏在印度迅速走红：玩家需要在前往新德里抗议场的途中躲避警察的拦截和拘留。印度年轻人通过这种游戏以讽刺和幽默的方式回应警方的行为。
A web-based multiplayer game in which players dodge police and detention on their way to a protest site in New Delhi has gone viral, as young Indians use satire and humour to respond to police actions.
随着由年轻人发起的抗议活动（涉及就业问题、考试试卷泄露以及选民名单修改等问题）在印度各地蔓延，越来越多的在线游戏正在将人们的政治诉求转化为可分享的数字内容。
As youth-led protests over jobs, exam paper leaks and voter roll revisions spread across India, a growing crop of online games is transforming political grievances into shareable digital content.
这一现象反映了这样一种趋势：成长在Instagram时代的一代年轻人，他们的表达方式与印度总理纳伦德拉·莫迪的政治沟通风格截然不同。
The trend shows a generation raised on Instagram is expressing dissent in ways that differ sharply from the political communication style of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
其中一款名为《Jantar Mantar Chalo》的游戏由27岁的IT专业人士苏拉杰·库什瓦（Suraj Kushwah）开发，他将其描述为“带有黑色幽默色彩”的作品。这款游戏讽刺了抗议者在前往首都主要抗议场所“Jantar Mantar”时所面临的种种困难——警方设置了封锁、道路被封闭，公共交通也暂停了。玩家可以在游戏中组建抗议队伍、躲避检查站、组织示威活动；或者选择站在警方一边，使用警棍和催泪瓦斯来驱散人群。
One such game, 'Jantar Mantar Chalo', was developed by 27-year-old IT professional Suraj Kushwah, who has described it as "dark humour". The game satirises the difficulties protesters face in reaching Jantar Mantar, a main protest site in the capital, amid police blockades, road closures and public transport suspensions. Players can build a kafila, or procession, evade checkpoints and stage a demonstration, or switch sides and deploy batons and tear gas to disperse crowds.
“当时的新闻简直就像一场闹剧，”库什瓦说：“人们试图前往Jantar Mantar，却不断遭到拘留……我就把这一切想象成了一场3D游戏。”自该游戏于10月14日发布以来，至少有2000人在同时段内参与游戏。
"Whatever news was coming was kind of like a circus," Kushwah said. "People were trying to reach Jantar Mantar. And they were getting detained. And I imagined it as a 3D game."
另一款游戏的主角是一位激进的左翼活动家尼哈·博拉（Neha Bora），游戏采用复古的8位游戏风格，类似经典的街机游戏。
Kushwah said at least 2,000 people had been playing the game at any point in time since its release on October 14.
“作为艺术家，我们认为讽刺是表达观点的最有力方式，”30岁的阿纳夫·纳亚尔（Anav Nayar）说；他与弟弟阿克沙伊（Akshay）共同开发了这款游戏。
Another game casts firebrand left-wing activist Neha Bora as the protagonist of a retro 8-bit-style platform reminiscent of classic arcade games.
这些抗议活动的起源可以追溯到“蟑螂青年运动”（“Cockroach Youth Movement”）——这一运动最初也只是一场网络上的玩笑。这些游戏的灵感都来源于针对印度选举委员会选民名单修改工作的抗议活动；反对党和活动人士认为，这次修改剥夺了1.3亿合格选民的投票权，从而偏袒了莫迪领导的印度人民党（Bharatiya Janata Party）。选举委员会和印度人民党否认了这些指控。
"We as artists believe that satire is the most powerful way to talk about things," said 30-year-old Anav Nayar, who co-developed the game with his brother, Akshay. The protests were triggered by the "cockroach" youth movement, which also started as a joke online. The games draw inspiration from protests against the Election Commission's voter roll revision exercise, which opposition parties and activists say has disenfranchised 130 million eligible voters and favoured Modi's Bharatiya Janata Party. The Election Commission and BJP deny the allegations.
Z世代的表达方式对莫迪构成了不寻常的挑战。在“蟑螂”运动迫使莫迪的教育部长于七月辞职之后，他通过自拍的Instagram视频加强了对印度年轻人的接触。但分析人士表示，莫迪的接触可能还不够。
Gen Z's style of expression poses an unusual challenge for Modi. After the "cockroach" movement forced the resignation of Modi's education minister in July, he intensified outreach to younger Indians through self-shot Instagram videos. But analysts say Modi's outreach might not be enough.
“印度人民党长期以来一直享受着在线上和线下控制叙事的主导地位，但这一次，年轻一代在各处都对他们进行了反击，”政治分析人士拉希德·基德瓦伊说道。
"The BJP has long enough enjoyed its dominance of controlling the narrative online and on the ground, but this time the younger generation has countered them everywhere," said Rasheed Kidwai, a political analyst.