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Feelings of loneliness and isolation when you are the only one not eating cake at the party, or when they forget to accommodate your allergies. Feelings of jealousy and longing when you are around people who are eating the foods that you so want, but you can’t because it could literally kill you.
Life after Kota: Learning to find balance It's been three years since I left Kota. I may not have become a doctor, but everything it taught me about myself still matters. I still strive to balance my mental health, physical health, and career. To witness my mental health grow over the years since Kota has been an incredible journey. The year after COVID, Kota claimed a record 26 lives; I wish they could have survived to see what lay ahead in their journey after Kota.
From Anganwadi centres to colleges, a new Odisha programme is training the adults who see children every day to recognise distress early, respond appropriately and connect them to help.
Teachers are not psychiatrists and should not be expected to diagnose students. But they can notice changes: a previously engaged student becoming withdrawn, repeated absences, a sudden deterioration in performance, extreme anxiety or a student repeatedly saying that they cannot cope.
A loving family doesn't make a child immune to distress, just as a difficult one doesn't mean a child is destined to struggle. Children carry pressures from peers, social media, appearance standards, academic expectations, relationships, and the world around them—often in ways adults may not see.
OpenAI’s Sam Altman and Anthropic’s Dario Amodei tell the UN Security Council that the technology they helped build could pose serious risks in the absence of global safeguards
Children are adopting AI faster than adults, while countries and international agencies scramble to decide where its use should stop; research says human relationships need to remain central.