Governance

Gobar Times: Imagine… No Exams

The first casualty of the mindless rat race that students undergo in India is their childhood

Rajat Ghai

Come March, and thousands of students will be playing “the gamble of their lives” as they take their board examinations. As usual, the stakes are very high. Through their performance, the students will either bring laurels or infamy to their families. If their performance is good, their parents would be able to boast about “my son, the engineer” or “my daughter, the doctor”. If their performance is bad, there would be teary eyes and barely-concealable shame and misery.

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