India, Aug. 17 -- A medical entrance exam, a law university convocation, a recruitment test, a campus land dispute. On the surface, these are separate stories but politically, they are beginning to look like variations of the same one. Across India, education has once again moved from the margins of political debate to its centre. In South India, a generation of younger leaders is increasingly meeting that mobilisation on its own terrain, speaking about examinations, jobs, campus autonomy, institutional accountability and the right of students to question authority. The NEET protests brought these anxieties into the national political mainstream. What began as anger over examination irregularities spread to streets, campuses and Parliamen...