“Modi called us friends. We are not friends.” Brut was at Jantar Mantra on 25 July when the “cockroaches” protesting against paper leaks got what they called a victory, with the former Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan’s resignation. “This was actually the first time in a long time that we think we won.” Seeing it as a rare sign of accountability in the Modi government, the people at the site told Brut that this was not it; this was just a “step” towards more reforms.