FROM THE EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

All the heated debate these days is about the radical transformation being imparted to India’s defence recruitment structure with the Agnipath scheme. But there’s another crucial field that is seeing a transformation that’s nothing short of epochal. That’s a college education. For decades now, July would bring to us news about maddeningly unreal cutoffs—inching ever closer to 100 per cent—that young aspirants had to match if they wanted to get into any of the colleges of repute. The race has always been tight for aspirants to get into the 42,000-odd colleges that come under over 1,000 universities across the country.