Last night, Sameer—the chai-wala's son—came to my balcony with a medical entrance math problem. He solved it faster on scrap paper than the paid-coaching kids in his class, bas because he practices while weighing sugar packets. But tomorrow his father will have to choose between paying rent and buying a test series booklet. For every one Sameer who slips through, dozens fall—and we keep telling ourselves this slow race is fair. Isn't the real question why a government school kid needs three tutors just to reach the starting line?
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