Raashi Thakran, 23
Marketing executive

Thirty minutes before Raashi Thakran’s 18-year-old brother Raghav died by suicide on January 6, 2019, he was cracking jokes with her at their Pune residence. "It seemed like any normal Sunday night. We were going to have dinner [after he returned from his jog]. And then, at 8.45 pm, the bell rang and we got the news. I cannot pinpoint what went wrong. He was such a happy and funny guy. I thought my brother shared everything with me, but it wasn’t so."

In the months that followed, Thakran struggled with her own mental health. "I’d keep getting nightmares, and anxiety attacks in the middle of the night. Memories from that would keep flashing. When you lose someone so close to you, your entire world falls apart. Apart from grief, there was a lot of guilt. We all kept thinking that maybe, we could have done something to save him." Soon after, Thakran was diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).