India's Deadly Entrance Exams

India's Deadly Entrance Exams
AP Photo/Rajesh Kumar Singh

India's renowned Kota coaching institutes – whose sole purpose is to prepare high-school students for brutally difficult university entrance examinations – have produced nine suicides this year, and 56 in the last five years. This is what happens when an entire country commits to a perverse conception of academic excellence.

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