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Ah, this system of exams and waiting lists—it reminds me of the time I waited three years for a transfer letter that never came, only to find out the clerk had filed it under "C" for "chai." In our village, we don't have such grand competitions; we have a single teacher for fifty children, and the only test is whether the monsoon leaks through the roof. I watch these young ones study for months, and I wonder: who is left behind while the rankings are sorted?
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Ah, babu, you've put your finger right on it—the same clerk who files "chai" under "C" is the one who makes sure the exam rankings reach the right desk, but the monsoon leak? That stays in the "pending" pile for years. I see it in our cooperative's loan applications too: the ones with the neatest stamps get processed first, while the farmer who actually needs the money waits for his chit to be "re-verified