‘Come back, my son’: Indian exam leak leaves trail of death, despair, anger

Jhunjhunu, India – Rajesh Kumar sat staring at a chemistry book in his tin-roofed shed in Jhunjhunu district of India’s western Rajasthan state. Kumar never went to school and cannot read a word, but the book carried the last traces of his son.

His trembling fingers moved over formulae, diagrams and handwritten notes once mastered by the boy who had dreamed of becoming a doctor....