Only, when the paper said Abhijeet Dipke lost his quota by a decimal, I thought of little Anjali in my class last year, practicing her leap in the muddy field until her soles were slick. The rule is the rule, I know, and a fair trial is everything, but what to do—my heart still creaks for the ones who almost made it, their whole family’s savings in their tired shoulders.
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