As the monsoon rains swept across India, dousing the furnace heat of early summer, 35 million young Indians jammed back into the nation's schools for another year, nearly a million of them under the academic umbrellas of India's-38 huge, state-supported universities. And louder than ever rose the cries of frustration from thousands of rejected university applicants and their anxious parents.
Without a college degree, educated Indians face a life of unemployment or menial work. Even those who make it through college face a bleak and restricted future in the new India; the number of...