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Palash Krishna Mehrotra

Living in the land of cheater cockroaches takes guts, spunk & moxie

It's been a strange kind of month, when millions of Indians transformed into virtual cockroaches, a toffee hogged diplomatic limelight, and even Trump found himself transmuting into a buffalo somewhere in Bangladesh. While I'm all for cockroach rights, fact remains that the newly minted human cockroaches will reach for a hawai chappal the moment they see the real thing. So much for empathy. The good part: at least we have rediscovered Kafka.

The cockroach umbrella includes a range of issues, one of the most important being NEET paper leaks, student suicides, and umemployed youth. Like where there is money, there is corruption, cheating and exams are chuddy-buddies. Every time a NEET leak happens, I'm reminded of my own big paper leak moment, which happened in Standard 7.

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