在由蟑螂人民党领导的抗议活动中，面对警察暴力的歌声、舞蹈和纯粹的喜悦表明，人们不再害怕印度的政权。七月，随着蟑螂运动的支持者们走上德里指定的抗议地点Jantar Mantar，他们因试卷泄露事件而愤怒，并要求印度教育部长辞职，全国其他地区意识到，自2014年印度人民党（BJP）上台以来，惯性的诅咒和恐惧的枷锁首次被彻底粉碎。纳伦德拉·莫迪总理的不可战胜形象被击破。
The singing, dancing and sheer joy in the face of police brutality at the protests led by the Cockroach Janta party show people no longer fear India’s regime In July, as supporters of the Cockroach movement took to Jantar Mantar, the designated protest site in Delhi, incensed over exam-paper leaks and demanding the resignation of India’s education minister, the rest of the nation realised that for the first time since the Bharatiya Janata party (BJP) came to power in 2014, the curse of inertia and the grip of fear had been smashed irrevocably. Prime minister Narendra Modi’s image of invincibility has been punctured.
印度人一直被灌输相信一种理念：激烈的慢性抗议最终会带来变革——但蟑螂们向我们展示了革命可以被快速推进。
People in India have been conditioned to believe in an idea of intense slow-burn protests that eventually bring change – but the Cockroaches have shown us that the revolution can be fast-tracked.
Meena Kandasamy 是一位居住在钦奈的诗人和作家。
Meena Kandasamy is a poet and writer based in Chennai