‘Solvers’ who can crack tests at the core of paper leaks

They were once talented students — able to decipher India’s notoriously difficult competitive examinations. In classrooms growing up, in schools and colleges, in state capitals and small towns, they were the students that the rest looked up to; the students that had all the answers. Several graduated to public sector jobs; some became doctors, others civil servants; some even became part of India’s security apparatus.