Indian students and pressure

An interesting article from The Telegraph, against the backdrop of the recent arrest of an Indian student for allegedly stabbing his teacher.

Nikhil Dhar may or may not have stalked and stabbed his University of Massachusetts teacher, associate professor Mary Elizabeth Hooker, over his falling grades. But if the charges against the 22-year-old Calcutta boy are true, he wouldn’t be the first Indian student in America to have had a breakdown.

Read Grade heat can singe . While this article talks about Indian students in the US, students in India too face a lot of pressure.