The views expressed above are the author's own. They do not necessarily reflect the views of DH.A few days ago, a headline from Madhya Pradesh caught national attention: 13,000 people, including 42 PhD scholars, applied for a single constable post. It was the kind of statistic that momentarily stuns and then lingers in the mind — not for its curiosity, but for what it reveals about the soul of a society.

What does it mean when our most educated citizens are lining up for the most basic public jobs? Is this a symptom of rising unemployment, a misalignment between education and opportunity, or simply a reflection of our enduring romance with government jobs? Or is it something deeper — an unspoken anxiety about the very architecture of India’s labour market?

The story, of course, is not co

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