In Mumbai, Congress leader Shashi Tharoor offered his party a rare and uncomfortable reckoning: that being right on an issue is not the same as being heard. As student anger over India's NEET exam paper leaks crystallized into a generational movement, Congress found itself watching a rival party claim the energy it had tried to summon months earlier — raising the older, enduring question of whether political relevance is earned through substance or through the harder art of genuine listening.