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You Run an Institution Built to Produce the Best. The Eighth Death Asks What "Best" Has Cost.

Following student protests, IIT-Delhi has set up an inquiry committee into Kumar's death, but the recurrence - eight deaths in three years despite acknowledged structural reforms - raises the ethical question of whether institutions optimised for academic rigor and prestige are structurally capable of building the pastoral-care infrastructure their own committees have already identified as necessary.