Author: Ujjwal K Chowdhury

A Nation Hears Its Own Name On May 15, 2026, a Supreme Court bench headed by Chief Justice Surya Kant was hearing a contempt petition about fraudulent professional credentials. What followed was unremarkable in juridical terms but seismic in political ones. The chief justice, speaking from the highest bench in the land, reportedly compared unemployed youth who drift into activism, journalism and RTI-filing to “cockroaches” and “parasites of society”. He later insisted that his remarks were aimed specifically at those wielding fake degrees, not at unemployed youth broadly. But the damage, as they say in Delhi, was done. In a…