Dear Reader,

Days after a Class X student in a Delhi school died by suicide — reportedly worn down by ceaseless public reprimands from some of his school teachers — news of another young life tragically lost emerged from Mumbai ’s Kalyan. A 19-year-old first-year college student, allegedly harassed and beaten up by a group of commuters on a local train for speaking Hindi instead of Marathi, returned home and called his father to recount the assault and his crushing feeling of mortification. By the time his family got back, he had died by suicide. Weeks before the two incidents, a nine-year-old Class IV student of a Jaipur school jumped to her death, allegedly after being upbraided by a teacher she believed was persistently and unjustly picking on her.

Three young lives, three stories

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