They flocked to New Delhi by the thousands. Young Indians demanding accountability from their government for a flawed education system, hoping for a promise or a signal from those in power that would reassure them about their futures.

数以千计的人涌向新德里。这些年轻的印度人要求政府对有缺陷的教育体系承担责任，希望能从当权者那里得到一个承诺或信号，让他们对自己的未来重拾信心。

Instead, the throng of protesters who tried to march to Parliament on Monday were confronted by security forces, batons in hand, tear gas canisters ready. As the crowd swelled, the police cracked down, striking people’s shins, calves and backs, swinging their staves overheard. Protesters hurled flip flops and water bottles back. Many rushed to escape through back alleys and side roads. Plumes of tear gas left people choking.

然而，周一试图游行前往议会的大批抗议者却遭遇了手持警棍和催泪瓦斯罐待命的安全部队。随着人群不断壮大，警方开始镇压，他们高举警棍，击打人们的小腿胫骨、腿肚子和背部。抗议者则予以回击，向警方投掷人字拖和水瓶。许多人匆忙从后巷和小路逃离。弥漫的催泪瓦斯呛得人们喘不过气来。

The protesters — mostly young people who chanted slogans, carried posters or stood quietly in solidarity — said they were shocked by the police crackdown and the lack of any real government response. By Tuesday, their sense of anger remained palpable as thousands returned to the protest site near Jantar Mantar, an 18th century observatory, undeterred by spurts of monsoon rain.

抗议者大多数是高呼口号、举着标语牌或静静站立以示团结的年轻人，他们表示，警方的镇压以及政府没有做出任何实质性回应令他们感到震惊。到了周二，他们的愤怒情绪依然显而易见，数以千计的人不顾季风带来的阵雨，重返位于18世纪天文台简塔·曼塔附近的抗议现场。

Security forces had removed tents and parts of the main stage at the venue. But Abhijeet Dipke, the founder of the Cockroach Janta Party — a satirical movement that has become a vehicle for the frustrations of millions of young Indians — said that the protest will continue indefinitely. He implored people to keep it peaceful.

安全部队已经拆除了现场的帐篷和主舞台的部分设施。但“蟑螂人民党”的创始人阿比吉特·迪普克表示，抗议活动将无限期地继续下去。他恳求人们保持和平。该党是一个讽刺性运动，已成为数百万计印度年轻人宣泄不满的渠道。

Leaders of the C.J.P. said 150 protesters were taken to the hospital from injuries in the protest on Monday. The Delhi Police said 118 of its officers were injured during “violent protests.” Around 70 protesters were detained, according to lawyers’ groups.

蟑螂人民党的领导人表示，在周一的抗议活动中，有150名抗议者因伤被送往医院。德里警方表示，在“暴力抗议”期间，有118名警察受伤。据律师团体称，约有70名抗议者被拘留。

周一在新德里抗议活动现场的示威者。周一，一名警察向抗议者投掷了一枚催泪瓦斯。

Although Prime Minister Narendra Modi has not responded publicly to the protests, on Tuesday he spoke through an emissary. Kiren Rijiju, the parliamentary affairs minister, told reporters, “The safety, security and future of our youth are our priority.”

尽管总理莫迪尚未对抗议活动作出公开回应，但他在周二通过一名特使发表了讲话。议会事务部长基伦·里吉朱告诉记者：“我们年轻人的安全、保障和未来是我们的首要任务。”

He also provided assurances that future paper leaks would be prevented.

他还保证，未来将防止试卷泄露事件再次发生。

Mr. Modi rarely responds to critics, so the comments appear to be a sign of the importance the leader has placed on the youth protests and a tacit acknowledgment of the political risk of alienating young voters in a country where more than 40 percent of the population is under the age of 25.

莫迪很少回应批评者，因此这些言论似乎表明这位领导人对青年抗议活动的重视，并且默认了，在一个25岁以下人口超过40%的国家里，疏远年轻选民会带来政治风险。

However, the government has said little in response to the specific demands of the C.J.P., which include the resignation of India’s education minister, whom the C.J.P. holds directly accountable for a shoddy education system and leaks in recent entrance exam papers that forced millions of students to retake their tests.

然而，对于蟑螂人民党的具体诉求，政府几乎没有作出任何回应。这些诉求包括要求印度教育部长辞职——该党认为他应对糟糕的教育体系以及近期入学考试试卷泄露事件负有直接责任，泄题事件迫使数百万学生重考。

“The government is in no mood to understand us and talk to us,” Chandan Mandal, a 19-year-old high school senior from the state of Rajasthan, said on Tuesday. He said he first protested more than a month ago. According to the C.J.P., at least 21 students have died by suicide since the exam leak, unable to handle the stress.

“政府没有心情理解我们、和我们对话，”来自拉贾斯坦邦的19岁高中三年级学生钱丹·曼达尔周二表示。他说他第一次抗议是在一个多月前。据蟑螂人民党称，自试卷泄露事件以来，已有至少21名学生因无法承受压力而自杀。

The police struck him with a baton three times on Monday, Mr. Mandal said. Two reddish bruises, each about three inches long, and an open wound were visible on his back.

曼达尔说，警察周一用警棍打了他三次。在他的背上可以看到两块约七厘米长的微红瘀伤和一处开放性伤口。

“I’m opposing the government itself now,” said Mr. Mandal, who is studying for an entrance exam for engineering school.

“我现在反对的是政府本身，”正在为工程学院入学考试做准备的曼达尔说。

A big reason for the frustration millions of young Indians feel is that there aren’t enough jobs, or that there is a mismatch between available jobs and qualifications, according to economists. A recent, widely cited study from Azim Premji University found that 40 percent of young people under 25 are unemployed, even as access to higher education has increased.

经济学家表示，数以百万计的印度年轻人感到不满的一个重要原因是就业机会不足，或者现有工作与学历资质不匹配。阿齐姆·普雷姆吉大学最近一项被广泛引用的研究发现，尽管接受高等教育的机会增加了，但25岁以下的年轻人中有40%处于失业状态。

The protesters’ most visible slogans as they gathered on Monday morning were less concerned with botched exams than with the government’s overall accountability.

周一上午抗议者聚集时，最引人瞩目的口号与其说是关注搞砸的考试，不如说是关注政府的整体问责。

“India is a Democracy! We Need Answers!” read one, in English. “In Search of the Misguided,” read another, in Hindi, next to a hand-drawn sketch of Mr. Modi.

一条英文标语写道：“印度是一个民主国家！我们需要答案！”另一条印地语标语写着：“寻找被误导的人”，旁边是手绘的莫迪素描。

By the afternoon, the police waded in. Cries of pain rose above the shrill police whistles and sirens of riot control vans. A thin, young woman crouched on a median, as her friends dressed a fresh wound on her forearm and rinsed her face, reddened by tear gas.

到了下午，警察介入了。痛苦的呼喊声盖过了刺耳的警笛和防暴车的警报声。一名瘦弱的年轻女子蹲在马路中间的隔离带上，她的朋友们正在包扎她前臂上的新伤口，清洗她被催泪瓦斯熏红的脸。

At the Janpath subway station nearby, a police van lay overturned on its side, its windshield smashed.

在附近的詹帕特地铁站，一辆警车侧翻倒地，挡风玻璃被砸碎。

Further away from the violence, Wishwas Srivastav, 36, an engine builder, said he had traveled to Delhi from the state of Himachal Pradesh to join the protests.

在远离暴力冲突的地方，36岁的发动机制造工维什瓦斯·斯里瓦斯塔瓦说，他从喜马偕尔邦来到德里参加抗议活动。

“It hasn’t been feeling like democracy here for the past 10 or 15 years,” said Mr. Srivastav. Of the government, he said, “I hope they’re listening.”

“在过去10年或15年里，这里感觉已经不像民主社会了，”斯里瓦斯塔瓦说。在谈到政府时，他说：“我希望他们能听进去。”

周一，一名警察试图用警棍驱散抗议者。警员们正在扶正一辆翻倒的警车。

By Tuesday morning, traffic along Janpath was back to normal, with some of the cross-streets more tightly barricaded. The police van at the metro station had been flipped upright.

到了周二早上，詹帕特的交通恢复了正常，一些十字路口设置了更严密的路障。地铁站旁的警车已被翻转扶正。

At the protest site, volunteers distributed food and drinks to protesters, including burgers from McDonald’s, samosas, water and electrolytes.

在抗议现场，志愿者向抗议者分发食物和饮料，包括麦当劳汉堡、萨莫萨咖喱角、水和电解质饮料。

Abhishek Kumar, 20, sat in the shade, tired after a roughly eight-hour bus ride from his hometown of Kanpur. After watching the protests on social media on Monday and seeing the police beat protesters, he said, he decided to join in person. Mr. Kumar, who recently took an entrance exam to join the armed forces, said he would stay for a few days.

20岁的阿布舍克·库马尔坐在阴凉处，他从家乡坎普尔乘坐了大约八小时的公共汽车赶到这里，显得很疲惫。他说，周一通过社交媒体观看了抗议活动并看到警察殴打抗议者后，他决定亲自加入。库马尔最近刚参加了武装部队的准入考试，他表示自己会在这里待上几天。

Many who gathered were parents worried about the future their children stand to inherit. Mina Ganesh, 51, was at the protest site on Tuesday with her son Miher, 17.

聚集在现场的有很多忧心忡忡的父母，他们担心孩子们的未来。51岁的米娜·加内什周二和她17岁的儿子米希尔一同来到抗议现场。

“Finally someone in the country is willing to speak up,” Ms. Ganesh said. “It took us long enough. Now that we have begun to speak up, there’s no stopping us.”

“在这个国家里终于有人愿意发声了，”加内什说。“我们等得够久了。既然我们已经开始发声，就没有什么能阻止我们。”

Miher, who wants to study either economics or engineering, said he was moved by the actions of Sonam Wangchuk, a prominent education activist who has backed the C.J.P.’s demands and joined its protest with a hunger strike.

米希尔希望攻读经济学或工程学，他被著名教育活动家索南·旺楚克的行为所感动。旺楚克支持蟑螂人民党的诉求，并通过绝食抗议加入了他们的行列。

Mr. Wangchuk is now 23 days into his fast and was forcibly moved to a hospital on Saturday by the government.

旺楚克目前的绝食抗议已进入第23天，他于周六被政府强行送往医院。

“He doesn’t know any of us,” Miher said. “How can I sit at home knowing he’ll die for me?”

“他不认识我们当中任何一个人，”米希尔说。“明知他会为我而死，我怎么还能坐在家里无动于衷？”