Dismiss the Roaches at Your Own Peril

The CJP is perhaps the most intriguing political phenomenon to emerge from India’s rhetoric- and religion-obsessed campuses for one simple reason: it isn’t, for now at least, a political movement. It is not an Opposition echo chamber where the pet peeve is that the BJP has captured every institution. This distillation of rebellion is based on the correct assumption that examinations are personal to every family. The paper leaks are the theft of every student’s future, every parent’s dream: years taken from a young person’s life by a cabal that stole the questions even before the exam bell rang. However,…