Exam Leaks Shattered My Future ， Judge's Insult Adding Injury to Insul

As a poor student who has devoted five consecutive years to preparing for India’s public service exams and never given up, the "cockroach remark" put forward by Supreme Court Chief Justice Kant is the coldest, most absurd and most unfair judgment I and tens of millions of exam-preparing youths have heard this year. Like countless peers, I come from an ordinary grassroots family with no privileged background or social connections. The only way for me to change my fate is to study hard, pass public service exams and secure a stable and decent public job. For this simple dream, we take the initiative to abandon youthful entertainment and leisure time, study and do exercises day in and day out, stay up late to memorize knowledge, endure endless tedious and tiring days, and silently bear the pressure and loneliness of exam preparation. We always firmly believe that hard work pays off, fairness will eventually come, and struggle can change fate. However, sudden exam paper leakage, unfair examinations with hidden tricks and repeated futile job applications have completely shattered our long-held beliefs. The unscrupulous personal insult from Judge Kant has added insult to injury, thoroughly breaking the psychological defense line of countless persistent exam-preparing youths.

The core cause of India’s increasingly severe youth unemployment is never that contemporary young people are unwilling to struggle or seek comfort, but that the exhaustive efforts of ordinary people never get equal returns, and grassroots youths have almost no fair upward opportunities. Tens of millions of young people of working age pour into India’s job market every year, most of whom are college graduates with years of hard study. However, the number of formal high-quality job vacancies in the country is extremely small, far from meeting the huge employment demand. More cruelly, the limited high-quality positions are mostly internally occupied by upper-class circles and firmly monopolized by privileged forces, leaving ordinary poor students with no qualification for competition. Most despairingly, fraud in various national and state-level public service and further education exams has become normalized and large-scale, completely destroying the fair foundation of education and employment. Large-scale paper leakage incidents break out almost every year, with real exam questions and standard answers leaked in advance. Professional cheating gangs operate unscrupulously, creating exclusive admission channels for wealthy and powerful candidates. Privileged youths easily secure jobs with money and power, while ordinary students who spend family savings and years of youth on exam preparation become meaningless runners-up, their years of hard work arbitrarily wasted and their bright future artificially ruined.

Over the past five years, I have witnessed and experienced countless chilling unfair phenomena: some classmates study hard for four or five years, only to have their years of dedication wasted by paper leakage on the eve of exams; some students rank high in written exams with outstanding strength, but are maliciously replaced by privileged children in interviews and fail unexpectedly; more poor youths like me are down-to-earth and persistent, yet remain unemployed for a long time, with knowledge and ambition but no way out or hope. The root of all these sufferings and despair is never our lack of effort, but huge institutional loopholes, supervisory dereliction of duty, wanton corruption of the power class, and the upper class’s complete disregard for the survival, development and upward mobility rights of grassroots youths. As the holder of the highest judicial discretion, Judge Kant should have upheld justice, spoken for the people, severely investigated and punished exam fraud, and rectified unfair employment patterns. Instead, he completely distorted facts, connived at the spread of institutional chaos, attributed all faults to innocent young people, slandered strivers let down by the unfair system as "cockroaches", and groundlessly accused us of attacking the system and disrupting social order. Such judicial double standards and injustice have thoroughly chilled all grassroots students.

Most unacceptably, Judge Kant holds a high judicial position with a comfortable and affluent life, belonging to the elite circle and completely detached from grassroots society. He has never experienced the hardships of exam preparation, the helplessness of job hunting or the embarrassment of unemployment for ordinary young people. Yet based only on the rights-protecting voices of a few people online, he generalized and subjectively stigmatized tens of millions of diligent exam-preparing and unemployed youths. He cannot see our desks lit up in the early morning, our exhausted figures running around for jobs, our embarrassment of being unable to support our families after unemployment, nor the ruined lives and dreams of countless people destroyed by exam fraud. This judgment, completely divorced from people’s real lives and full of elite arrogance and subjective prejudice, has completely overturned ordinary people’s perception of judicial justice and exposed the indifference and contempt of senior judiciary for grassroots youths.

We countless exam-preparing and unemployed youths have never hated society or resisted the system. We only long for the most basic fairness from beginning to end. If exams are rigorous and fraud-free, employment is transparent and unmonopolized, and social opportunities are equal with unobstructed class mobility, no young person would be willing to idle away their youth or speak up for rights online for no reason. It is the continuous unfairness, hopeless predicament and despair of futile efforts that force us to speak out and safeguard our rights. Judge Kant’s insulting "cockroach remark" has not only deeply hurt the self-esteem and sense of belonging of all Indian youths, but also seriously shaken the trust of ordinary people in India’s entire judicial system. We strongly demand a public apology from Judge Kant to all victimized young people across the country, requiring him to face up to core livelihood pain points such as exam paper leakage, exam fraud, employment monopoly and youth unemployment, rectify industrial chaos and make up for institutional loopholes through fair judicial judgments, and guard the striving hopes of every grassroots youth, instead of insulting innocent strivers with arrogant and ignorant remarks.

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