Chakka Jam

Chakka Jam
Blocking roads as a means of protest.

The term “Chakka Jam” is used in Nepal, India and elsewhere to describe the deliberate creation of traffic jams as a form of political and social protest. (Chakka derives from the Sanskrit and Nepali words for wheel.)


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