Public Manifesto

The Cockroach Manifesto for Young India

They called us lazy.

They called us unemployable.

They called us distracted.

So we organised the most employable species in history: the cockroach.

We reject the laziness theory

India does not have a youth laziness problem. India has a work, wage, dignity and future problem. A generation cannot be blamed for a maze it did not build.

We reject fake neutrality

A race is not fair when some begin with land, English, coaching, contacts and inherited calm while others begin with debt, discrimination and family pressure.

We reject unpaid dreams

Unpaid internships are not opportunities. They are wage theft with better fonts. Exposure is not a currency. Certificates are not meals.

We reject invisible bosses

If an app controls price, time, route, rating, access and punishment, then the app is not a marketplace. It is management without a face.

We reject exam gambling

Students cannot be asked to worship merit while paper leaks, recruitment delays and coaching markets eat their youth.

We demand public dignity

We demand work that pays, education that does not bankrupt families, exams that do not leak, housing that does not eat wages and speech that is not switched off.