Literally every second student you see at an NLU is facing mental health issues: stress, depression, panic, loneliness, sadness etc. I confess that I too have such issues, as a mere first year. Happy one minute because I aced an exam or played well in a cricket match, terribly depressed the next because I got rejected for an internship, or someone was rude to me, or a girl friend-zoned me in favour of a senior guy.

Were things this bad before? If not, what changed? Just social media and FOMO culture, or fewer job opportunities relative to the population? Just 80 NLSIU grads in 2000 versus over 3,000 NLU grads today?

The smartphone pandemic has onset. Social media with 24/7 in hand access was bound to create this, we are only in the first decade aage aage dekho hota hai kya. There is no solution to this. We are neurotically not adept yet for the kind of screen progress we have made as a species.

Don’t talk about stuff you don’t know. You can google and see that there are tons of articles on mental health websites about friendzoning. See the example below. Where this can become toxic and dangerous is if you feel that you were dumped because you are poor, and then you listen to Andrew Tate and become a misogynist and believe in the 80-20 rule. Instead, you should be positive and try to find a partner who likes you as you are, even if you are poor. For every girl or guy who is money-minded, there is someone who is not.

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-attraction-doctor/201303/avoiding-the-friend-zone-becoming-a-girlfriend-or-boyfriend?amp

you will find an online article that pathologises every emotion a human being can ever feel. Go on some incel websites that guys there will tell you that youve had your human rights violated because a woman refused you. Thats surely not the standard for actual diagnoses of actually disruptive conditions that require medical interventions.

It’s not because of social media, but rather only Instagram and TikTok. Gen Y had social media too: Facebook, MySpace and Orkut. But Gen Z has been influenced mostly by Instagram and TikTok. The algorithm of Instagram is such that you see only rich guys flaunting their wealth and beautiful women, so you get insecure (even though 90% of these people are fake and lying). As for Tiktok, post Trump’s win in 2016 it’s become a polarising place where you choose between racist Nazis who post hate speech and batshit crazy wokes who glorify Hamas and want to burn JK Rowling alive for opposing trans participation in women’s sports. Literally nothing in between.

tch. Everyone has dramatic moments during adolescence. It is bizarre to me that you all grow up thinking the world didn't exist before you and no one had lived a life or faced problems.

In fact, you're living in the best possible time you could live in in history. Every bit of knowledge is at your fingertips; advances in medicine mean you're not dying of polio as a child, and even AIDS is basically just a condition you live with now. There are many cancers that are basically cured. You think bigotry and oppression and all your causes are bad now? How much worse would it have been had you been born 40 years ago? Here's a question-—when was the last time you were hungry? I mean, really hungry? Like, you need nutrition now hungry? Do you know how fortunate you are to not know that kind of hunger? I know young people have developing brains and little common sense—but Jesus—go touch some grass.

Nothing you've described is atypical of any other normal teenager. Your hormones are jumping all over the place and it leads to hightened emotions. Your generation just likes to pathologize everything and turn everything into an identity. You don't have mental health issues. You're having a bad day now and then. Deal with it and move on. Stop victimizing yourselves. No one is impressed by your many oppression points.

Did you know what it took to be 80 NLS grads in 2000? Do you know how hard you had to work and how lucky you had to be? Would you like to go back there? Would you rather NLS stop admitting more students and stick to 80? You cannot complain about everything-—if NLS admits more people, " oh not everyone is getting the best jobs" if nls doesnt admit more people " oh legal education is so elite" . No one owes you a job. Become someone worth hiring, someone who would contribute to the world around them, their employer, their firm, their family, their community, or whatever.

All that you said used to happen earlier also in terms of incidents only. What has changed is how people react to it nowadays. I think it's social media. Social media has set very high expectations of us from ourselves. While earlier we used to be normal about such incidents when they occurred, now we feel like biggest losers because of brain diabetes from so much social media consumption. Our brains are interpreting life's normal ups and downs as threats and stressors for the perfect life story we may have built in our heads.

Have you ever heard of:

- Tarunab Khaitan?

- Shamnad Basheer?

- Shyamkrishna Balganesh?

- Sudhir Krishnaswamy?

- Dev Gangjee?

- Lavanya Rajamani?

- Surabhi Ranganathan?

What exactly is wrong with you? Please do not put down a model of legal education which is among the best in the world, just to personally satisfy your own insecurities. This model has produced scholars of global repute, some of whom are household names in their respective fields. How many such did the pre-NLU, supposedly more rigorous, model of legal education produce? Okay, B.S. Chimne and Upendra Baxi. Great. Fill in at least five more names, I challenge you. Surely, if the pre-NLU model is that good, we can get seven names of legal scholars of global repute who were educated within it? After all, it had 40 more years of experience than the NLU model!

I dont know why one would say that! I think Sudhir K, Tarunabh, Arun T, Rohit De, Lavanya, Shyam Balaganesh, Umakant, and many others have quite proven themselves to be extraordinary scholars. There isnt a conference they could go into and not be treated as peers by the best academics in the world.

Every second student? More like EVERY SINGLE student. Just that the degree varies. Type 1 would be depression over acads, placements and relationships. Type 2 would be suicide ideation and self-harm. Type 2 needs to be given top priority, but type 1 is also important because it can lead to type 2 if unaddressed.