India's 'Cockroach Party' and the 20-day hunger strike causing a stir
by editors@theworld.org (Joshua Coe) from The World: Latest Stories on (#772EH)
Friday marked an anti-government activist's 20th day on hunger strike in Delhi, India. Sonam Wangchuk has been protesting in support of the satirical Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) and its call for the country's education minister to resign. The World's Host Marco Werman learned more from political anthropologist Mukulika Banerjee, who researches Indian democracy at the London School of Economics. She explained how hunger strikes have a special resonance in India.