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On a sweltering afternoon at Delhi's Jantar Mantar, thousands of students stood with placards rather than textbooks. Similar protests echoed through Amritsar, Mumbai and several other cities. Their demand was strikingly simple: let examinations test knowledge, not privilege. The anger was not merely over another paper leak. It was over a deeper betrayal the collapse of faith in institutions that promise equal opportunity. Corruption is often described as an economic crime, me

The proposal by Prime Minister Narendra Modi to establish fast-track courts (FTCs) for paper leak cases has once again brought India's long standing debate over speedy justice to the forefront. Coming amid widespread protests over repeated examination irregularities, the announcement reflects an understandable public demand for swift accountability. Yet it also raises a larger institutional question: can creating more fast track courts alone cure a justice system weighed down