The sun isn’t even up, but Subhash is already running. Coaching tomes weigh down one hand, his frayed schoolbag the other, and the burden of an entire family’s hopes presses into his thin shoulders. The Class 12 student is locked in the brutal race for medical and engineering entrance exams—school by compulsion in the morning, coaching confinement through the day, test-series marathons at night.

सुबह की पहली किरणें अभी आंखें मल रही होती हैं, लेकिन सुभाष की दौड़ पहले ही शुरू हो चुकी होती है। एक हाथ में कोचिंग की मोटी-मोटी किताबें लटक रही हैं, दूसरे में स्कूल का पुराना बैग लटका है, और कंधों पर तो पूरे खानदान की आशाओं का पहाड़ सवार है...

Ask any unemployed youth in India today, “What are you doing?” and chances are the reply will come pat, “Preparing for the IAS.” As if there’s only one sacred route left to serve the nation, by becoming a District Collector!

From the white dust of chalk to the digital glow of ChatGPT—the journey of education has been nothing short of magical. Once, dreams were painted on blackboards with chalk; today, those very dreams have found new wings in the world of smartboards and AI.

जैसे दवा की दुकान पर प्रशिक्षित फार्मासिस्ट रखना अनिवार्य है, ठीक वैसे ही ठेकेदारों को भी ट्रेंड सिविल इंजीनियर्स रखना अनिवार्य किया जाए ताकि निर्माण कौशल और गुणवत्ता में सुधार हो।

Dust-choked roads, bridges collapsing at breakneck speed, and schools reduced to rubble—this is the reality of our so-called ‘development’! In a country where billions of rupees from the public treasury are poured like water, the common people are left with shoddy work and broken promises. This contractor system has turned the nation’s progress into a looting spree, where quality is sacrificed at the altar of corruption. It’s a poison eating away at India’s development from within.