Campus Requiem
Sukanta Chaudhuri | 03 March 2025 | The Telegraph
Every year, some 13,000 students in India take their own lives, nearly twice the already disturbing number a decade ago. The first seven weeks of 2025 saw seven deaths in Kota’s coaching centres, plus two widely publicized ones elsewhere. Given the annual figures, the greater number are clearly never publicized.
Not all student suicides relate to studies or campus life. (Has anyone compared suicide figures for students and non-students of this age group?) Some cases result from personal issues like disappointed love or ill health. Many more are due to conflicts with parents and family, often for entirely private reasons. But here, the personal sphere starts to merge with the academic…