I am a recipient of such anti social behaviour during my days in NLSIU. These people need an excuse to release their suppressed anger towards society over anyone whom they can relate and easily make an example of. It didn't matter whether it is right or wrong. It also doesn't matter whether there is any shred of proof or not. All they care is for the end result to meet their expectations. Because the irony is if you turn out to be someone else, these elements of NLSIU will become all the more angrier of being wrong and then punish you for it by their behaviour for not being that person which they thought you to be. They will act as a unit against you without caring for your point of view and reasons. I have to painfully mention that even the professors and academic institutions were in on it. They even attempted to make me feel that I am delusional and imagining things. And if you say anything they have a ready made story of calling you mentally weak and in need of therapy. It is their go to story and first line of defence because they know they have wide array of discretion and can mold any story according to their whims. But when I see some people have also faced such acts, I just want to let you know it is not just academic rigour or failure of people to keep up but something dark elements of psychology at play to ruin your career by ruining your grades by ruining your social circle. Please take it from me it is very easy for them to give you a bad grades and simply states that he was also doing poorly and used it as a corroborative evidence later. These people have no respect even to their tagline how can you except to respect each other.

Totally agree whatever you said. These professors let you down by giving bad grades and even by failing you, just because our answers r not as per their expectation. Like every student has different way of writing & thinking, these professor try to impose their political thought on students. Students who are goody goody with the professors get O or excellent marks. & when others get low marks they give the label of mental illness & ask them tk taje counselling services.

Facing this in NLUD. Few senior professors are adamant on giving less marks saying you have not written as I taught. A lot of them have been known to just fail or give like highest 60 out of 100 and feel proud that they are cutting marks and are strict. We all know how they teach and then pretending to be strict. I ve seen them ridicule few faculty who mark properly saying noone gets above 60 in my subject. You are giving her too much. I think we need to start questioning these relics.

The National Law School of India University (NLSIU), Bangalore, is deeply shocked and saddened by the sudden and unexpected demise of one of our students, Mr. Dhruv Jatin Thakkar. Dhruv was a first year student of the B.A. LL.B programme and hailed from Mumbai. He was a warm and compassionate person, and a bright and diligent student, well-liked by his peers and faculty. The NLS community stands in solidarity with his grieving family and friends in this period of deep sadness. The University staff are working closely with the authorities and extending all support to his family members. We request all members of the community to respect the privacy of the family at this time. As a mark of respect, the University will suspend all classes for the remainder of the week. We request all members of the NLS community to come together for a condolence meeting in the Old Academic Quadrangle at 11AM on Friday 22nd March, 2024. The University welfare support service and counselling services are available to anyone in the community who needs to reach out. Sudhir Krishnaswamy Vice Chancellor

It’s in all the papers. The typical response to such incidents is that there are counselling services and Sudhir has said the same. But we are looking at the problem too narrowly. It’s much deeper. I will only say Google for the UN World Happiness Report, which came out yesterday.

Some of the reasons for such an extreme step are usually

Academic pressure & failing exams etc.

Failed love affair, betrayed by partner

Broken family/ parents divorce

Hopeless looking at future

Irreparable loss. May his soul rest in peace

speculating about reasons for suicide is freaking irresponsible. A human being is dead. Suicide is a complicated thing. People who attempt it usually have many reasons for it and not just one, and people who attempt it are often dealing with complicated mental health problems. Please do not turn this freaking tragedy into some spectacle where you get to play out your agenda- whether thats hating sudhir or getting free grades or whatever else. Have some respect for the kid and his family.

For what ? We don’t know what the kid was going through at all. How do you take responsibility when we literally don’t know who is responsible ? Let them investigate - maybe there’s a note. In either case suicide is more often about the person who commits suicide and what they’re dealing with than anything external.

You don’t want responsibility. You just want a scapegoat.

so because all students are fantasising the same reason it should be true? how many of those people even knew this kid? what are you even talking about? how can someone protect your mental health? i would think if students widely want to use a tragedy like this to argue against academic rigor- that says a lot more about the students who are alive and their insensitivity and selfishness rather than any real concern for the dead.

World Happiness Report: Why Gen Z is the unhappiest generation today

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"While the report doesn’t outline the reasons, experts suspect heavy use of social media to be one of the key reasons for the high unhappiness rates. Social media has been attributed to driving down the self-esteem of the young. In fact, US Surgeon General Vivek Murthy had called for legislation on the use of social media for the young, citing that adolescents were spending nearly five hours a day and a third were staying up until midnight on week nights on their devices. He had said that legislation was required to protect and reduce the harms of social media to young people. The excessive use of social media by the young has also led to a loneliness pandemic, which is affecting the happiness levels of people."

https://www.firstpost.com/explainers/world-happiness-report-finland-gen-z-unhappiest-generation-13750931.html

I thought of suicide as a student in a reputed NLU, because I failed a year and had bad grades. I also didn't get a good job and had to go into litigation, whereas my batchmates (who became my seniors) were placed at CAM and such firms. They were busy buying Apple products and good clothes with their sign-on bonuses. Junior girls were flocking to them, while no girl showed any interest in me. My parents helped me out of my depression and I reconnected with my old school friends and childhood friends, instead of the toxic and fake crowd at NLUs. Today, I am doing well in my career in litigation. I find it ridiculous that I even thought of suicide, because grades mean nothing in the real world. Also, most of the people who joined CAM left after 1 or 2 years, as they did not like it. Some went into litigation, where I am now ahead of them, LOL.