India, Oct. 18 -- A Pune-based man has ignited a conversation around school stress and excessive homework after sharing that his eighth-grade son is often awake past midnight to complete school assignments.

Niteen S Dharmawat, investor and co-founder of Aurum Capital, posted a short clip of his son working late into the night. He wrote, "As a parent, I'm feeling so helpless with this rotten system. Whatever I was against, I have to face it for my kid now." In another part of the post, Dharmawat added, "Terror is such that if he doesn't do it, he won't be allowed to participate in his favourite PE period. Every day he is awake till 12-12:30. As a parent, I'm feeling so helpless from this rotten system. Whatever I was against I have to fac...