They were supposed to be tomorrow's doctors.
Instead, 13 of them are gone.
A 20-year-old in Nagpur tucked her suicide note inside a NEET prep book.
A father in another city held his dead son's textbook against his chest.
In Dehradun, a school topper — daughter of a Kargil War veteran — became just another name on a list that should never have existed.
This is what a "paper leak" actually looks like on the ground.
Over 2 million aspirants sat for NEET-UG 2026.
The paper leaked.
The exam was cancelled.
And then came the chaos.
The Opposition has now drawn a hard line:
Protests have spilled onto the streets. The newly-formed Cockroach Janta Party has latched onto the rage — feeding off frustration over exams, unemployment and a system that just doesn't seem to see its young people anymore.
A Nagpur student got a re-exam centre… in Abu Dhabi.
Let that sit for a second.
The NTA's playbook so far:
Sticking plasters on a wound that needs surgery.
Academics have been begging for years: make it computer-based, two-staged, spread over days — like IIT-JEE.
The NTA finally seems to be listening.
But why not now? Why not this time?
A friend recently said: "If they can't handle the pressure, they shouldn't want to be doctors."
He's missing the forces these kids carry:
It's trust.
Trust doesn't rebuild on a press-release schedule.
It doesn't return through an advisory dropped the evening before the exam.
It's rebuilt slowly — by institutions behaving as if the human on the other side actually matters.
Medicine learned this lesson a long time ago.
India's examination system still hasn't.
That's all for now!
