India, July 10 -- This piece is honestly provoked by the death of famous Indian actor Sushant Singh Rajput, not because non-celebrity lives are less important but there is a threshold to realise the severity of the problem, to understand it's graveness. Otherwise, I'd have started with the story of my teen nephew from my extended family who was found dead in the canal in my village, apparently, he was suffering from undiagnosed and untreated mental illness.
To understand it better, let's look into the official data of NCRB (National Crime Record Bureau). 1.3 lakh suicides were reported in 2018 in India, barring not reported alone. That accounts for 357 deaths every day or 15 deaths every hour, officially. Of which, 10000 students committed...