RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat’s response to the students’ protests is timely and welcome — it goes beyond what the BJP itself has so far conceded. The RSS chief’s framing of the issue sounds more unforced and less patronising. It takes many opinions, including contrary ones, to reach the whole truth, he said, and the young’s exasperation with the education system is genuine. There is another reason why Bhagwat’s softer framing of the students’ protests carries political health warnings. When he says that the students have rightly raised the issue of education, when he suggests that the education system calls for sweeping reforms, he leaves much unsaid.