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Indian police cracked down on 'cockroach' protesters. They went home and made memes about it

Indian police cracked down on 'cockroach' protesters. They went home and made memes about itPhoto: BBC World

For 'cockroach' protesters, reels and memes became a way of documenting fear, making sense of violence and refusing to let it have the last word

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