India, Aug. 1 -- The NEET protests may have ended but can the death of a young student, driven to suicide by an examination system already tainted by leaks and repeated uncertainty, really be reduced to compensation? The government may call it relief; for grieving families, it risks becoming an unkindest cut-placing a price on lives that should never have been lost

The just-ended protests by students at Jantar Mantar ended with a sort of symbolic victory both for students and the Government as the Education Minister, Dharmendra Pradhan, was forced to resign and an agreement was signed between the Government and the striking students.

Sonam Wangchuk, the unlikely hero who jumped in the protest launched by the Cockroach Janta Party to tak...