Goanet Digest, Vol 21, Issue 249

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Today's Topics:

   1. Read: "CJI [Chief Justice of India] may clarify but Cockroach
      Janata Party is ready for dissent, one laugh at a time" (Vivek Pinto)
   2. Read: "Why the Silencing of Helle Lyng [commentator in the
      Norwegian newspaper Dagsavisen] Is Not A Sideshow" (Vivek Pinto)
   3. Read: "CJI?s ?Cockroaches? Remark Does Not Bode Well for
      Democracy" (Vivek Pinto)


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Message: 1
Date: Tue, 19 May 2026 07:55:51 +0900
From: Vivek Pinto <[email protected]>
To: Goanet <[email protected]>
Subject: [Goanet] Read: "CJI [Chief Justice of India] may clarify but
	Cockroach Janata Party is ready for dissent, one laugh at a time"
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ONE NATION, ONE COCKROACH (Should that be *Aakrosh*)

By: Debayan Dutta
Published in: *The Telegraph* Online
Date: May 18, 2026
Source:
https://www.telegraphindia.com/india/cji-surya-kant-may-clarify-but-cockroach-janata-party-is-ready-for-dissent-one-laugh-at-a-time/cid/2161212
*Note:* Please access the source to read the entire article

"?Nothing of this is planned,? Abhijeet Dipke, the CJP?s founder, a Boston
University graduate and former social media strategist for AAP, tells The
Telegraph Online about the viral sensation."

"Chief Justice of India Surya Kant may have clarified that he did not mean
to call unemployed youngsters 'cockroaches' and that the 'parasite' remark
was directed at those with fake degrees, but it has already sparked a
virtual and viral revolt in the form of the Cockroach Janata Party.


It?s a hyper-ironic, meme-driven digital outfit that has logged over 45,000
registered members on its website,

https://cockroachjantaparty.org/ in just two days."


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Message: 2
Date: Tue, 19 May 2026 19:21:31 +0900
From: Vivek Pinto <[email protected]>
To: Goanet <[email protected]>
Subject: [Goanet] Read: "Why the Silencing of Helle Lyng [commentator
	in the Norwegian newspaper Dagsavisen] Is Not A Sideshow"
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By: Editorial
Published in: *The Wire*
Date: May 19, 2026
Source:
https://thewire.in/media/why-the-silencing-of-helle-lyng-is-not-a-sideshow
*Note:* Please access the source to read the entire article.

"It shines a sharp light onto the descent of India?s public sphere and
barely-free media."

"The gagging of the Indian media is now normalised after 12 years of a
government obsessed with evading questions, either outrightly denying data,
or not making data accessible. It is capped by zero press conferences by
the prime minister ? a first in independent India.

But there are moments when it gets shown up starkly, breaking the fever.
This often happens in a particular context ? in democracies with a press
willing to push the envelope.

A woman journalist, Helle Lyng, a commentator in the Norwegian newspaper
*Dagsavisen, *attempted to ask Prime Minister Narendra Modi questions
<https://thewire.in/media/modi-refusal-press-questions-norwegian-journalist-helle-lyng>
 which he and his entourage no doubt heard, but then went on to disregard
completely. For a PM who has yet to address a single press conference in
his near 13 years in the top job, answering Lyng would have been
unthinkable. This, despite the fact that he is projected as a wildly
popular leader and is arguably one who assumes and returns to power with
the people?s mandate.

Lyng said she asked questions as 'in Norway, when foreign leaders visit.
The press usually will get to ask questions. Not many, but a few. That was
not the case today with Modi, and will not be tomorrow either.'

Later, Lyng was invited by the Indian embassy ? publicly on social media ?
to a presser by diplomats, a far different deal than a presser with the PM.
She attended it and when she asked why Norway should trust India given its
human rights situation, she was told, incredibly, that India is the land of
yoga, has handled COVID well, and exports vaccines and medicines."


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Message: 3
Date: Tue, 19 May 2026 22:37:16 +0900
From: Vivek Pinto <[email protected]>
To: Goanet <[email protected]>
Subject: [Goanet] Read: "CJI?s ?Cockroaches? Remark Does Not Bode Well
	for Democracy"
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By: Rekha Sharma [Rekha Sharma is a former judge of the Delhi high court.]
Published in: *The Wire*
Date: May 19, 2026
Source:
https://thewire.in/law/cjis-cockroaches-remark-does-not-bode-well-for-democracy
*Note:* Please access the source to read the entire article.

"The CJI is not a single individual. With his elevation to the judiciary,
he has turned into an institution. When he speaks, he speaks on behalf of
the Constitution."


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