IIT Bombay suicide: Caste or pressure?
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Experts look into student pressure, campus counselling, and how institutions respond to mental health crises
The immediate question after an IIT-Bombay student’s death by suicide is not simply whether suicides are increasing, but what pressures students face and whether institutions are doing enough to respond. The death has also brought allegations of caste discrimination and an SC/ST Act case against Professor Suryanarayana Doolla into focus, making it important to separate the ongoing investigation from the broader questions around student welfare.
In the latest episode of AI with Sanket, the daily YouTube program of The Federal, Professor Raghu Murtugudde, Professor CB Sharma, Vice Chancellor of Vinoba Bhave University, and Namisha, founder of Youthracy, spoke on the competing concerns around the case, student stress, caste allegations and mental health support.
