Youth protests may have moved from Jantar Mantar to Jharkhand and the flashpoint from NEET exam leaks to recruitment exams but there’s a common thread: education, employment and anxiety about the future. 

Former education secretary R Subrahmanyam decodes why youngsters have reached a breaking point and the structural reforms that are urgently needed in our education system, including how India needs to conduct exams to secure their future.

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