 "A class XII student preparing for his exams")
On April 3, 2017, Arjun Bharadwaj, a 24-year-old management student, committed suicide by jumping out of a 19th-floor hotel room in Mumbai. Media reporting suggested he had been depressed about failure in exams and repeatedly talked about ending his life on social media. There were also suggestions he was battling drug addiction.
Bharadwaj’s story made the headlines–likely because he killed himself at a five-star hotel and discussed suicide methods on Facebook–but it is no exception: Every hour, one student commits suicide in India, according to 2015
