Tavleen Singh writes: The cockroaches are right

India needs new younger faces in politics and governance so that we get beyond that increasingly tedious choice between secularism and Hindutva. (File) 5 min readJul 26, 2026 06:17 AM IST First published on: Jul 26, 2026 at 06:16 AM IST Paradoxical and a little thrilling that it was a slapdash bunch of young Indians and not the opposition parties who brought the Prime Minister to his knees. On Saturday, just as this column was going to press, the PM finally persuaded the Education Minister to resign. He was the rotten symbol of a rotting education system and had to go. But, by taking his time, he may have done India a favour. As for the Prime Minister, all he has offered is a stringent new law which he has told us was stringent at least five times before. Not good enough. Here I must point