India, Feb. 24 -- Every March, across India, a familiar silence descends on homes. Screen time goes down. Social events are postponed. Dining tables are silently converted into study tables. Board exams are not merely a milestone in a student's life; they become a season for the entire family. In most homes, parents adjust their work timings, take leaves, and sit with their children late into the night, as if they are appearing for the exams themselves. The pressure is collective, the stress is shared, the hopes unspoken but strongly felt. But what lies beneath the discipline and the passion is something that we talk less about: stress.

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