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No One Did It, It Happens - Wars to Exam Scandals, Pollution to Crumbling Cities

Sonam Wangchuk's hunger strike at Jantar Mantar, demanding Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan's resignation over exam leaks, prompted Mehta's reflection on how modern governance uses anonymising language - "The System," "The Bureaucracy," "Norms" - to describe decisions that were, in fact, made by specific people. He draws a parallel to the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change's repeated relaxation of…