'My Dadi Has a CJP Card Now': India's Grandparents Are Joining the Cockroach Party

It began as grandchildren making cards as a joke for their grandparents. Then the grandparents started asking for their own. The Better India collects two dozen of these stories — a 78-year-old retired schoolteacher in Jaipur who keeps her CJP card in her purse beside her Aadhaar, a Kolkata grandfather who printed his and framed it, a Coimbatore grandmother who made cards for her entire kitty group. What emerges is not a joke about old people and the internet. It is a generation that watched their grandchildren finish degrees and find nothing, and who understood the cockroach metaphor immediately, without anyone needing to explain the meme.