Narendra Modi has never faced such an awkward political challenge at home in his entire 12 years in power. The country claiming to be Vishwaguru missed the point that no country can become a world leader unless its knowledge base is strong. Modi's own National Education policy promises to spend 6% of the GDP on education, but remains unfulfilled.

What started as a satire in May when Chief Justice of India Surya Kant compared the unemployed youth with 'cockroaches', the Boston-based communications strategist seized the moment, and asked online if all the cockroaches in India were ready to join hands, and if so, what would be the consequences?

Gen Z responded and formed a huge movement which, for the first time, challenged Lashkar-e-Modi's tyranny and fascism being exercised for long. The youth were genuinely angry over unemployment, multiple scandals in examination system, paper leaks and the Modi government's absolute indifference towards their future. According to India's own estimates, among Indian graduates under 25, about 40% are........

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