In India, several internet forums on Reddit, Discord, Telegram and WhatsApp are filled with retail traders, now aiming to replicate their brethren on the other side of the Atlantic. In one such forum called ‘IndianStreetBets’, a Reddit group with around 12,000 members, one of the hottest topic is sending shares of Suzlon Energy ‘to the moon’ by pumping up its prices through coordinated buying by the members.
