In China, where very few dissident movements have been exceptional enough to cause any significant change, a song from India is being used by the people to showcase their dissatisfaction with the Xi Jinping government’s stringent zero-Covid policy that is currently burdening the people, causing many to be stuck at home. The government’s crackdown has found unusual competition from disco king Bappi Lahiri’s famed composition, Jimmy Jimmy, from Mithun Chakravarty starrer Disco Dancer (1982). It has sneaked into popular Chinese consciousness and become a way to register protest, albeit of a softer kind. In Mandarin ‘Jie mi, Jie mi‘ translates…