Sorry, while the university should definitely listen to the students' problems, provide counseling, talk to the parents etc., making people pass when they are clearly not up to the standard by holding multiple examinations every year is simply not the solution. I'm entitled to get marks because otherwise I'll harm myself is a very dark and undesirable way of putting things across. If someone is failing, then they need help to do better, not simply an undeserved promotion.

Compulsory counselling? Do you even know what you are talking about, or what the term 'counselling' means? Or what the implications of a policy making engaging with such a process mandatory are? Please educate yourself before randomly making suggestions.

Advocate all you like for universities to have more qualified, empathetic, counselling staff - that I 1000000000% support, but please don't advocate for mandatory engagement with counselling. There are people for whom engagement with what is purported to be a process of counselling has caused great difficulties and done more harm than good.

The universities are situated within societies that bring with them all the issues affecting communities and their residents. The NCRB report states that there are 26 cases of student suicides every day, which means one student takes their life every hour. This is tragic. It's disheartening to hear that a first-year student, who had barely spent a month at the university, felt compelled to take such drastic action. This situation speaks volumes about families and parenting in general and is part of a larger problem. In law schools, academics are smooth, with hardly anyone failing. On the other hand, failure rates are higher in traditional colleges, where such instances are rarely seen. The students in TLC have better resilience and coping mechanisms.

It’s really hard to isolate a cause for suicide. For the most part it’s some combination of opportunity and Ill health. What can be done is for people who are in trouble to seek out cognitive behavioural therapists that will help them manage negative thoughts and consider all the good things life has to offer.

Absolutely no one for any reason should kill themselves for any thing that happens at university. No college drama is worth that at all. In my university batch there were people who didn’t graduate, women who went through sexual assault, people who took so many mind altering substances they were barely holding on, people who faced bullying, ostracisation, degradation and humiliation, people who came from messed up families- all of it. One of our batchmates died in an accident and that messed up his friends a fair bit. But not one of us committed suicide. And guess what? - years later, college is over, and all of that stuff just seems so petty. So unbelievably insignificant. These people are now doing well in their careers and most have a spouse and kids. It would have been silly and terribly short sighted to commit suicide then and not stick around for everything good that life has to offer.

We can find all sorts of things to blame it on. Drug culture , academic rigor , lack of academic rigor, love failure , career uncertainty, lost a job, failed too many subjects , assault or violence, whatever. Many of those things will not change. It’s really hard to change culture. It’s really hard to create a world where no one considers suicide. It’s far easier to identify people at risk and for those people to do some CBT so they can avoid harming themselves.

Seriously? You chose to use the phrase "general reasons"? Just say it out loud: this generation is going through a full-blown mental health crisis! As John Oliver said about COVID-19 in the context of the economy, the textbook (or textbook strategies) just didn't apply and went out of the window, and the only textbook that applied should say "Oh fuck, oh fuck, oh fuck!". Maybe start by educating yourself and by taking a breath and acknowledging that John Oliver's dictum covers this situation precisely?

To answer your specific question, of course university makes the mental health of people whose situation is already difficult worse! What did you expect? Peer pressure and a cutthroat environment where people care exclusively about themselves, young people (many of whom are appallingly unprepared for university life) suddenly being treated as full-grown adults, a shocking lack of qualified mental health professionals, admins who don't give a shit about students but only about keeping their jobs, currying favour with the right people (read: oiling politicians' backsides) and lining their pockets, a society as judgemental (if not more) than England (once again, see Oliver joking about the levels of scrutiny that the lives of even minor functionaries within the royal family are subjected to)? The mixture is lethal!

Muktsar (AIR 1 NEET 2017), MBA student at IP University, an IIT G student, students of various NLUs–the recent case being of a first year student at NLU D–all committed suicide in a span of less than two weeks. This is shocking and tragic. What could be the reason for college students committing suicide? Of course there are general reasons like depression due to family issues, etc etc but is there a way college is actually exacerbating the already bad mental situation of college students? What could colleges change to bring this growing number of suicides down significantly?

https://indianexpress.com/article/india/complete-fraud-supreme-court-punjabs-nri-quota-appeal-9585616/lite/

Here are the pros and cons of having an NRI quota in NLUs, as I see it:

Cons:

1. People with low CLAT scores get in, dilutes standards.

2. Larger batch size adds to placement pressure.

3. Places rich students at at advantage

Pros:

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2. ▮▮▮

3. Students who are not rich can always make it through the merit list or EWS/domicile/caste quotas. Also, some of the fees raised through NRI quota can be used as scholarship money for students from poor backgrounds.

Thoughts everyone??? ▮▮▮

Can you find a state NLU that is NOT toxic?

- Suicides in NLUD

- VC intruding into girls' hostel in RGNUL

- Gujarat HC issue with GNLU

- Sexual misconduct in NLS
- Politics, and dress code issues in WBNUJS

- Ragging and bullying are common

- Irregular faculty salaries in MNLU-N

- Admin apathy, no funding, corruption, entitled students, creaking infrastructure in all NLUs

The list goes on. In fact on this platform, the dire situation is underplayed and many posts are not published or marked trollish.

GNLU (like all NLUs) is a state university. This is the best you can get. Thank your stars because Gujarat as a state is doing OK economically. Imagine the plight of students studying in poor states like UP (Pragraj and Lucknow), Bihar (Patna), Chattisgarh (Raipur), Odisha (Cuttack), Rajasthan (Jodhpur), Jharkhand (Ranchi), Assam (Guwahati) and MP (Jabalpur).

I get how you feel; I am a fellow first-year only. But the thing that you need to understand is that this is just your first sem. Give the place some time. It will surely surprise you in a good way. As for the freshers and garba thing, even our seniors had their freshers cancelled, ig it was the third or the fourth year. And politics in student bodies is pervasive, so the possibility of the Garba not being as big an event should only bother you if you are in SAC because then it's your lookout. Otherwise, you are here to study; freshers and Garba should not affect you as much as they are. Online bullying is happening for the first time in the uni; it is because of our batch. We need to tackle that batchmate independently with the admin's support. The hygiene and sanitation issues are genuine and need to be looked into by the admin; we need a more significant voice (which the admin will hear) with some real solutions. Sending us home cannot be a solution.

I am a fresher with a 6-7 months study gap for llm. I wish to get a job in ip law specifically as i wish to do llm in it. Kindly suggest firms or independent lawyers in such domains who may have structured timings so i can focus on academics as well. Delhi-NCR region. If you know the remuneration,mention that too.

I have an interview at Trilegal coming up. This would be my first ever internship interview from a Tier 1. Please tell me what to prepare. Is interview merely a formality or do they reject as well? Background: I am from a Non-NLU LLB with an average CV. Applied through the portal and kept on following up with the HR.

Hello, I'm preparing for the MHT-CET and would greatly appreciate any tips or guidance you could offer. Could you please share the most effective study strategies, important topics to focus on, and resources that would help me excel in the exam? Additionally, any advice on managing time during the preparation phase and the actual exam would be very helpful. Thank you!