Earlier this week, having read a major Indian newspaper’s publication of an opinion piece on the increasing student suicide rates in the IITs brought to the fore one of my long-standing gripes with the Indian education system. The piece starts off with the Supreme Court’s intervention into the matter and segues into recommendations for urgently incorporating mental health literacy in Indian universities.  Ever since my second year at university, I’ve had a bone to pick with most psychology programs in India. While the writer in that piece addresses mental health literacy as a whole, where does queer mental health literacy for students fall into this paradigm? While there is also no confirmation or data on whether these students belong to queer and/or Dalit communities, introducing the basics of queering and anti-casteing mental healthcare should seem like a basic step in the right direction. Unfortunately (and unsurprisingly), it doesn’t seem to…