<p>After a protest clip went viral, a teenager’s life was torn apart by threats that sent her and her family into hiding. Plus, a book on citizen journalism</p><p>Before 24 July, a person I will call R was preoccupied with the ordinary routines of teenage life: experimenting with makeup,<strong> </strong>grumbling over mathematics homework<strong> </strong>and hanging out with friends at a tea stall.</p><p>That month, as the fever of student protests spread across the country, the 15-year-old watched on her phone as young people poured into Jantar Mantar, the designated protest site in Delhi, demanding education reform. She went too. But an 11-second video clip from the protest site, in which she made crude and profane remarks about the prime minister, Narendra Modi, upended her life.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/oct/19/this-is-india-student-protests-abuse-modi-cockroach-protests">Continue reading...</a>
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She was harassed for crude remarks about Modi at a Cockroach protest. Now she can’t leave home
<p>After a protest clip went viral, a teenager’s life was torn apart by threats that sent her and her family into hiding. Plus, a book on citizen journalism</p><p>Before 24 July, a person I will call R was preoccupied with the ordinary routines of teenage life: experimenting with makeup,<strong> </strong>grumbling over mathematics homework<strong> </strong>and hanging out with friends at a tea stall.</p><p>That month, as the fever of student protests spread across the country, the 15-year-old watched on her phone as young people poured into Jantar Mantar, the designated protest site in Delhi, demanding education reform. She went too. But an 11-second video clip from the protest site, in which she made crude and profane remarks about the prime minister, Narendra Modi, upended her life.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/oct/19/this-is-india-student-protests-abuse-modi-cockroach-protests">Continue reading...</a>