India celebrated Children’s Day on November 14 and World Children’s Day on November 20 with enthusiasm—hashtags trended, leaders sent warm wishes, and social media was flooded with colourful posts about hope, joy, and the “future of the nation.”
But behind these festive posts lies a dark, uncomfortable truth that few dared to discuss: India’s children are crying silently, suffocating under pressure, and dying unheard.
The most heartbreaking reminder came from Jaipur, where 10-year-old Amayra, a Class IV student of the prestigious Neerja Modi School, died by suicide. A child who should have been drawing butterflies in her notebook ended up taking the most tragic step imaginable.
The details are devastating.
Amayra had repeatedly begged her teacher for help, pleading with folded hands to protect her from relentless bullying by classmates. She cried, she complained, she tried everything a child could do to escape that trauma. But no action was taken.
Reports said that there was no anti-bullying committee in the school—an essential requirement under CBSE rules—and shockingly, no representative from the school has contacted the grieving family till date.
Even though the Education Minister and the Deputy Chief Minister visited the parents and promised strict action, the family continues to wait.
This tragedy was not isolated.
On World Children’s Day itself, another horrific case emerged from Karauli, where a student ended his life after allegedly being beaten brutally by his teachers. Before dying, he told his parents, “If you want me to be happy, put my teachers behind bars.”
Across the nation, such stories appear with frightening regularity.
In Kota, the coaching hub of the country, suicide has become so routine that it barely shocks anymore. Every few weeks, another student’s life crumbles under the crushing weight of expectations, competition, and loneliness.
So, on days when we post cheerful messages about our “precious children,” we must ask:
- Are we giving them a life worth celebrating?
- Why are our schools and coaching centres escaping accountability?
- Who is monitoring teachers, institutions, counsellors—or the lack of them?
- How many more children must die before the system wakes up?
The biggest sufferers are the parents—helpless spectators who lose everything, yet continue to fight a system that has repeatedly failed them.
Children’s Day wishes mean nothing when children are dying unheard.
The nation owes its kids more than smiles and social media posts—
it owes them protection, dignity, and the right to live.
Circulate this post till it awakens each parent to come forward and give justice to tiny soul Amayra who was too small to take this big step, to this student in Karauli who might have dreamed of some good career and to every student who succumbed under pressure…
Let’s pledge to releive this society from creating such cookers where students are succumbing under pressure.