When you look deeper, Vyapam turns out to be more than large-scale racketeering and grand corruption. It is, as Aman Sethi, a discerning journalist, puts it, ‘a vast societal swindle—one that reveals the hollowness at the heart of practically every Indian state institution: inadequate schools, a crushing shortage of meaningful jobs, a corrupt government, a cynical middle class happy to cheat the system to aid their own children, a compromised and inept police force and a judiciary incapable of enforcing its laws’3.
