EXHIBIT 001● ARCHIVED
"They are like cockroaches…"
— Chief Justice of India, May 2026
THIS IS WHERE IT STARTED
FILE / 001
🪳 LIVE DATA · UPDATED DAILYThey called us
They called us
Cockroaches.
We kept count.
A living record of India's unemployed youth, dead startups, and the system that made them.
🪳COCKROACHES
~0.0 Cr
Youth without formal employment
💀DEAD IDEAS
~0+
Startups & projects killed by the system
✈️DEPARTED
~0.0 Lakh
Skilled Indians who emigrated last year
EXHIBIT 002● ARCHIVED
"2 Crore jobs per year."
— Election Promise, 2014
STILL WAITING
FILE / 002
EXHIBIT 003● ARCHIVED
"If you can't find a job, sell pakoras."
— Cabinet Minister, prime-time TV, 2018
ON THE RECORD
FILE / 003
The Scoreboard
UPDATED HOURLY · NO ASTERISKS45.4%
Youth unemployment, urban 20–24 (PLFS)
MoSPI, 2024
1.2 cr
Applicants for 60,244 RRB Group D vacancies
Railway Recruitment Board
83%
Of India's unemployed are young people
ILO India Employment Report 2024
₹0
Earned by 42% of postgraduates aged 25–29
PLFS 2022–23
🪳 Editorial
Anger, archived.
This is not a campaign. It is a registry. Every vacant post, every cancelled paper, every degree fed back to its student as proof of nothing — recorded, dated, sourced.
We are not asking for sympathy. We are not asking for a scheme. We are asking for the country we were promised in school textbooks to please stop pretending it exists in the budget speeches.
— The Editors, Cockroach Janta Party
This Week's Filing
3 STORIES · 0 EDITORIAL FAVOURSEXAM SCAM
Seventeen leaks. Three retakes. One generation.
How the NEET-UG paper escaped, who it reached, and the silence of every official who knew.
12 MIN READ · FREE
GRAVEYARD
The vacancy that aged forty years.
A clerk's post advertised in 1984 was finally filled in 2024. We mapped every other ghost notification.
8 MIN READ · FREE
EXODUS
Suitcase, certificate, silence.
Punjab's airports are processing more degrees than its colleges. Inside the great walking-out.
15 MIN READ · FREE
A SHORT HISTORY
How the
jobs went
missing.
- 20142 crore jobs / year promised.
- 2017Demonetisation. 50 lakh informal jobs gone.
- 2020Lockdown. 12.2 crore lose work in April alone.
- 2022Agnipath. The army becomes a four-year internship.
- 2024Youth unemployment hits 45.4% in urban 20–24 cohort (PLFS).
- 2026"They are like cockroaches…" — Chief Justice of India, on record.
- 2026We started keeping the receipts.
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