Cockroaches 1, Modi 0: India's remarkable protests

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  The Economist.

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  Hello and welcome to The Intelligence from The Economist.

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  I'm Jason Palmer.

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  Today on the show, why so-called macro trading is hard both for man and machine,

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  and the mystery street artist taking over cities.

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  But first,

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  Government ministers come and go all the time all over the world.

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  But in India, the resignation of Dharmendra Pradhan, the education minister over the weekend was seismic.

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  It was driven by growing youth protests, and the youth were ecstatic.

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  A mild-mannered movement that started as a jokey meme has become very, very serious for India's leader.

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  We've had 12 years of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's rule,

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  and in those 12 years, we have never before seen a cabinet minister resign due to public pressure.

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  Kira Huju is our Asia correspondent and has been reporting from the protests in Delhi.

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  I had not been expecting this resignation.

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  Frankly, I don't think that all of the cockroaches were expecting the resignation,

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  and now it goes far beyond that.

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  This I think is the beginning of a new culture of descent and accountability in India.

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  Now, at the mention of cockroaches, they have been talked about on the show before,

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  but let's do a little reminder, who are they?

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  So, back in May, India's Chief Justice seemed to compare India's jobless youth to cockroaches.

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