Metamorphosis Nobody Expected From Young Cockroaches
- Siddharth Dhanvant Shanghvi
- Updated: Jul 21, 2026, 20:22 IST IST
In Franz Kafka’s The Metamorphosis, protagonist Gregor Samsa wakes up one morning as a cockroach. His family is horrified not by the transformation, but the prospect of his sheer unemployability. In India, cockroaches – the higher judicial term for India’s young and jobless – woke up and discovered that they had been transformed: Into people.