As new beginnings are made, it becomes necessary to ring out the old. The resignation of Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan, over a month after the start of students’ protests triggered by the NEET exam paper leak, is welcome. The minister has done the right thing by making way for someone who will now have to earn the trust of the students’ community. A community that, to its enormous credit, came together in a leaderless agitation and made itself heard. The twin issues of education and unemployment, which are crucial for a nation’s growth and shape its sense of the future, and yet which have been treated with a lack of urgency for years and decades, are now centerstage. It is the achievement of the satirical online platform, the Cockroach Janta Party, which gave the call, and the youth who responded in large numbers to the issues that........

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