A Tragedy Illuminates a Parade of Indian Calamities
Students’ drowning deaths are due to so many unnecessary causes
By: Nirupama Subramanian
A tragedy in Delhi's capital on a rainy Saturday night last week brought together two big Indian themes in a single horrifying disaster – one, the dysfunctional Indian city, and the other, the national obsession with the qualifying exam for the Indian civil service.
Two young women and a man drowned when the basement library where…
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