The Cockroaches Would Like A Word
India's youth were called cockroaches. They made the slur a movement, the movement memes, women at the frontline. Now the state and traditionalists fear what they can't police: women who won't behave.

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Dr. Wafa Hakim Orman is the Associate Dean of the College of Business at the University of Alabama in Huntsville, United States. She is a labor economist who studies the effect of culture and religion on economic outcomes, and has published her research in the Journal of Development Economics, the Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking, and the Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, among others.
India's youth were called cockroaches. They made the slur a movement, the movement memes, women at the frontline. Now the state and traditionalists fear what they can't police: women who won't behave.
