Few tears have been shed over the temporary ban imposed on Telegram till June 22. For starters, Telegram is a cloud-based messaging platform favoured by everyone from political campaigners and cryptocurrency evangelists to recipe collectors and conspiracy theorists. It also happens to be an efficient vehicle for sharing examination papers, leaked or otherwise. That was enough for the National Testing Agency, custodian of the sanctity of the NEET examination, to persuade the government that the easiest way to preserve academic integrity was to silence the messenger for the time being.

To be fair to Telegram, it did not sneak into printing presses at midnight, bribe officials or spirit away question papers in........

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