April 1672
Several days passed, and the news about the establishment of two new ministries had become a topic of heated discussion throughout the empire. Middle-aged men and women, college teachers, doctors, policemen—everyone speculated about why the ministries were established, why exactly they were established now, and what roles they fulfil.
For anyone living in the India of the 21st century, such questions and the phenomenon of politics becoming a topic of national interest might look like a fantasy, but that is exactly what is happening now. With the Bharatiya Empire's education policies seeping deeper into the roots of even the remotest villages, people are getting educated at a breakneck speed, giving rise to an atmosphere in the empire where people started to crave knowledge.
