Start the conversation. Depression is real. We need to talk about it.
Cold, rainy, Sunday evening, I was assembling some new furniture at home while watching a Stand Up Comedy act on Prime Video. This guy is talk about how “Reality is stranger than Fiction” the movie on M.S. Dhoni and briefly mentions Sushant plays the role. For a split second, the image of Sushant Rajput’s poster for the movie comes in my mind. All work done, I happily send the pictures of newly set furniture to my friends and then check my phone and see Sushant Rajput commited suicide in his apartment in Mumbai. I’m shocked, I call up my Ma and talk to her about the actor. My head is exploding. I sit down on my couch, I start going through the online posts and exchange messages with a few friends about what just happened. While Police will investigate what really happened, my gut says it is an outcome of the most Silent Killer - Depression. For almost 2 hours, all I can think about is how Depression is eating away young people in this lockdown. 2 days ago, I had a long conversati...