The simple answer is “NO.” They have already done their best and failed. They are helpless, whether they hear it or not.
A campus is not a factory to build “GADDHE” (the asses). It is a place where the transactional world (the syllabus) interacts with human lives, the students. Students have feelings, emotions, targets, and dreams. If we continue to perform only for transactions, the human is lost. That loss becomes the headline in the form of suicides. We are sacrificing life to save degrees.
Today, if we define CAMPUS as a Community of Active Minds Performing Under Stress and STUDENT as Studying to Unlock Degrees, Exhausting for Numbers to Show, it would not be wrong.
Confusion, stress, depression. High expectations from society, family, and self. All of it. Every day, these pressures place students nowhere except in a position to hold that weight. Why so?
The reason is simple. Plans, efforts, education, degrees: none of it is converting into expected results. Students fail to align their inner thought process with execution in reality.
Gen Z are the powerhouse of knowledge, calibre, and energy, born in the 21st century but forced to operate through a 19th century education system to invent for the 22nd century.
It feels like Ferrari engines have been fixed into lawn mowers.
We often call Gen Z the most “impatient” generation. They are not. They are the most intelligent generation. They don't merely aim for materialistic success. They want to enjoy everything: personal life, professional life, and social life. They refuse to compromise one for the other.
While previous generations struggled for basic necessities, for this generation even the sky is not the limit. They have the information, tools, and resources to create something extraordinary. But they lack the environment, the platform, the trust, and the collaboration needed to convert those ideas into reality. Our existing systems are still obsessed with numbers, ranks, and CGPA. These are outdated patterns. In a world of such high potential, the traditional syllabus has lost its meaning.
That is why students feel like a pressure cooker, with no passage for the high pressure to drain, except to blast.
But we are still continuing with the same narratives, the same approaches, the same patterns, and getting the same results as usual. We keep losing lives. Look at the reality below.
A Real Incident.
This happened in a hostel room at a very famous IIT. A student was fed up. He decided to end his life. Before taking the final step, he messaged his roommate: “By the time you read this, I will be gone.”
The message was read immediately. Authorities were called. They rushed. Students gathered. But no one broke the door.
As per protocol: let the police arrive. Let the ambulance arrive. Let the doctor arrive. It took 45 minutes. As a result:
- • Systems win.
- • Life lost.
- • Transaction completed.
Everyone went back to their routine because the life lost was not their loved one.
Did you like the story? Yes, did you like the STORY? It has no more value than a story for those who keep their feelings and emotions aside to be successful in life. It does not feel real to anyone unless they fall into the same loop themselves.
If someone loses their life, we simply post an emoji, “RIP” (Rest in Peace). Because PEACE cannot be experienced while you are alive. Parents are not just losing their children. Their entire life becomes a living body without a soul.
Our systems and environments are so toxic, rigid, and lifeless that they never allowed anyone to Live in Peace.
Is this the growth we are working for? Is this the environment Samaaj, Sarkaar, and Bazaar are working day and night to deliver to citizens? Shame on all of us. We are all working like dead souls. The fastest growing economy in the world is working hard to reach its goal as the third largest economy, by burning people's lives, making them alive without a soul.
Did you ever think why every effort made by Samaaj, Sarkaar, and Bazaar to reshape the education system is resulting in a toxic environment? This is the ultimate truth students are facing everywhere in their lives.
How are we trying to fix it? By establishing wellness cells, counselling centres, yoga programmes, and mental health awareness campaigns. These motivate students momentarily but do not change the actual situation. They do not need motivation. They understand everything. They know from inside that they have the capability to create wonders. The problem they face is activating that thought process in reality.
Every motivational movie, speech, and TEDx. Every “you can do it” poster on the campus wall. Every “believe in yourself” seminar. Every “All is well”, said without a mechanism to make it well. They do not release the pressure. They increase it. Because they show the student what is possible, vividly, emotionally, powerfully, and then send them back into the same system that makes it impossible.
That is not motivation. That is cruelty dressed as inspiration.
Think twice, three times. Why are we behaving like this? Who will fix this environment? Does anyone have the answer?
If it is Govt.? – Who in Govt.? Or Society? – Who among society? Or the Bazaar will come forward? No one. These are all words, until human beings represent them. They are dead, until humans activate them. So, this is You & Me, the ones who have made the living hell. From someone among You & Me will come the workable solutions.
So, who will bell the Cat?
Every “I”, every single individual, can contribute in whatever way they can. An idea, a suggestion, a platform, a mechanism, resources, power, potential, vision, collaboration, skills, talent. Anything and everything is needed to come out from the trap of pressure and toxic environment.
If you want to initiate any action, info@nishchhaldhara.org is ready to support you.
Campus Is Calling for Action.
Save the lives. Not the Degrees.