Twenty-four hours before the Intermediate Public Examinations results were released in Telangana, suicide helplines began to buzz ceaselessly. The exam trauma Jawahar Lal Nehru, a counsellor working in the Tele-MANAS centre located at the Indian Institute of Health and Family Welfare in Hyderabad, says, “The trauma of exam fear begins with the child worrying about the reaction of the parents …
