Srinagar, Aug. 16 -- Injustice is corrosive. It doesn't just deny opportunity; it eats away at the very soul of a society. I learned this not from theory, but from bitter, repeated experiences. Fresh out of my M.Tech, I walked into an interview room with four strangers on the panel. They asked for a lecture, fired a few questions, and ended with the customary, "We'll let you know." A month later, the results were out. My name wasn't there. Disappointed but determined, I moved on-until, during my higher studies, I met some of the same panel members again. One of them, admitted the truth: the list had been finalised before interviews even began. Gifts-shawls, among other "tokens"-had secured seats for the chosen. Merit was never in the equa...