Srinagar, Aug. 7 -- Education has always carried an extra weight in Kashmir.

Along with books, students carry burden and brouhaha. In classrooms disrupted by discord and in families grieving invisible wounds, the idea of learning as liberation feels distant.

For far too many young Kashmiris, school is a pressure cooker, than a space of growth.

We rarely say it out loud, but it's all around us: stigma, breakdowns, and boys who suddenly leave coaching classes, the girls who stop speaking at home.

Everyone knows someone who couldn't take it anymore. Everyone hears the same hush:don't say it was depression, don't tell anyone, we don't talk about these things.

This is what makes the Supreme Court's judgment in Sukdeb Saha v. State of Andh...