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14:56Now PlayingTens of thousands of young people in India are on the streets protesting as part of the country’s “cockroach” movement. They’re calling for education reform and systemic change after recent university entrance exam leaks forced millions of students into rewrites — and led to several suicides. We talk to Shourya Kumar, who’s been at the protests every day this week in Delhi, and Amrit Dhillon, a freelance journalist based in New Delhi, explains what this moment means for the country.
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