Author name: Manasi Srivastava

Manasi Srivastava is a political science postgraduate (BA Hons, Delhi University; MA, IGNOU) and UGC-NET qualified. She is currently a TRIP intern.

The Price of Preparation: Inside India’s UPSC Coaching Economy

Coaching promises certainty. What it reliably delivers is a business that grows regardless of who passes. A thousand seats stay a thousand seats, no matter how many crores change hands trying to fill them. Until the industry’s claims answer to something beyond its own brochures, the deaths, the debt, and the years lost will keep

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From the Pen to the Server: How India’s Exam Leaks Became Exam Crashes

Computer-based test (CBT) was meant to close India’s accountability gap. Instead, it moved the gap from paper to server and from press to vendor. The question isn’t whether the technology works elsewhere, but whether India built the version meant to work here, or just digitised the custody-chain failure behind over 90 paper leaks in two

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India’s Higher Education Crisis: The Rise of Contractual Faculty

Renewable contracts, leave-vacancy hiring, quality parameters- these are not gaps in policy. They are the policy. Higher education governance in India manages a structural problem through quiet procedural defaults rather than policy – precarity, here, is not a failure of administration but a form of it. A student at a Delhi College may be taught,

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