Prachi Raturi Misra White flowers, his favourite cake, lots of candles and some of his favourite people. Everyone ringed in his 18th birthday on 8 April with the joy and love he thrived on. The only one missing was him.“When I saw him smile in the picture, I reminded myself he was hopefully in a better place,” says Aarti Malhotra, Arvey’s mother who lost her only child to suicide in February 2022.“Arvey was ragged and sexually assaulted in school for being him,” she says. Battling depression, fighting alienation, disrespect and hurt, he couldn’t take the pain anymore.“He loved to paint his...
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