Student suicides: Why parents must tune into teen distress
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Student suicides: Why parents must tune into teen distress
Student suicides: Why parents must tune into teen distress on social media. Students in India are more vulnerable than ever to online bullying. Students are being bullied online for being too skinny and flat-chested. They are also being bullied for not having enough money to pay for school fees. Students have also been bullied for having too much money.
Neha Bhayana & Ketaki Desai TNN Jul 26, 2025, 20:17 IST
With bullying — both online and offline — and academic pressure mounting, young people in the country are more vulnerable than ever
Class 12 student Meera Sahni* was casually scrolling through reels after attending online classes during the lockdown when a female classmate added her to an Instagram group chat. What followed was two hours of relentless bullying: the girl shared photos of Sahni with her body parts highlighted, mocking her for being too skinny and flat-chested. Others in the group also commented about how their cigarettes cost more than Sahni’s clothes. Sahni tried her best to ignore the comments that kept popping up, but then the classmate posted a picture of Sahni on her Insta page and her 22k followers joined in the ridicule. Pushed to the brink, Sahni attempted to take her own life. Fortunately, her parents found her in time and rushed her to the hospital.
Not everyone has been so lucky. Since schools and colleges reopened after the summer break, a disturbing number of student suicides have been reported. On July 18, Jyoti Jhangra, a second year dentistry student at Sharda University in Noida, took her life due to alleged harassment by professors. A week earlier, Arun, a student of Reva University in Bengaluru, ended his life because he was being humiliated on the class WhatsApp group for a year. Three of his classmates were arrested for abetment.