Why listening to students’ voices is crucial to tackling the student suicide crisis in India

After she became increasingly irregular in class, the teachers deemed a student’s absenteeism, a misdemeanour. The parents were notified of her ‘indiscipline’, a label that aligned seamlessly with the teachers’ accusations that she was a ‘bad student’. As she became increasingly silent and withdrawn, parents consulted a tertiary mental healthcare centre where she was branded ‘abnormal’, in need of psychiatric treatment for depression. Comments have to be in English, and in full sentences.

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