India’s cockroaches, Guyana’s parasites

Oct 28, 2026 Features / Columnists, The GHK Lall Column

(Kaieteur News) – Police out in force. Tens of thousands in India. Is there a war? Indeed, there is. The Modi government apparently has scant tolerance for students, young unemployed and, of course, Muslims. Hence, that ready army of cops with sticks, and demonstrators ready to go to jail. What’s this America, Martin King and his ilk in the 1960s and India in the 1940s? What about Guyana’s unhappy with, angry at, and disillusioned by, their disfigured PPP Government? I see Guyanese patriots made differently these days. From wax. Facebook warrior standing for nothing, then the automatic next step. The long walk across the floor. Those who said black stay back and brown hang around had it wrong. Formerly disruptive blacks and browns now belong at the front of the parade. Mannequins before microphones and parrots on podiums. Try telling Guyanese about steeling their constitutions and being ready for jail. What! And let Messenger, Twitter, X, and TikTok all go to waste, and zero stress?

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The youngsters in India register their distaste for government policies the old-fashioned way. On the streets. In the sun. In the jails. This new Indian subcaste has a derogatory name: Cockroaches. Their playbook is Jawaharlal Nehru’s and Mohandas Gandhi’s and the rest book, from what they did to the British. One man in a suit, the other in a skimpy sari ran an Empire out of town. Now they go against the reincarnation of the subcontinent’s new legend, self-appointed holy man, Narendra Modi. They are ready for jail. Fancy that! tens of thousands of police to block some students and youngsters, while the Chinese and other neighbors make rings around the BJP.