{"id":354067,"date":"2026-03-29T19:15:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-29T19:15:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/354067\/"},"modified":"2026-03-29T19:15:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-29T19:15:07","slug":"startup-founder-reacts-to-mental-health-crisis-in-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/354067\/","title":{"rendered":"Startup Founder Reacts To Mental Health Crisis In India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Prafull Billore, founder of MBA Chai Wala, has highlighted a pressing issue in India that&#8217;s affecting people&#8217;s personal and professional lives. In a recent post on X (formerly Twitter), Billore pointed out that marriages are falling apart and relationships feel suffocating. He wrote that despite economic growth, people are struggling with stagnant careers and a lack of purpose, failing marriages and strained relationships, financial stress, and mental health issues like anxiety and depression.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I travel across India and meet hundreds of people. Rich ones. Struggling ones. Young ones. Middle-aged ones. And the most common thing I see isn&#8217;t ambition. It isn&#8217;t poverty either,&#8221; Billore wrote on X.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s quiet suffering.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Marriages falling apart. Relationships that feel like prisons. Work that drains the soul. Debt that never ends. Businesses that won&#8217;t grow. Finances that spiral,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Also read | <a class=\"sp_lnk2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ndtv.com\/offbeat\/us-man-catches-nearly-500-pound-swordfish-after-5-hour-fight-feeds-entire-town-11282193\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">US Man Catches Nearly 500-Pound Swordfish After 5-Hour Fight, Feeds Entire Town<\/a><\/p>\n<p>See the post here<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">I travel across India and meet hundreds of people.<\/p>\n<p>Rich ones. Struggling ones. Young ones. Middle-aged ones.<\/p>\n<p>And the most common thing I see isn&#8217;t ambition. It isn&#8217;t poverty either.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s quiet suffering.<\/p>\n<p>Marriages falling apart. Relationships that feel like prisons. Work that\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Prafull Billore (@_prafullbillore) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/_prafullbillore\/status\/2038009434702803006?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">March 28, 2026<\/a>What&#8217;s the root cause?<\/p>\n<p>According to Billore, the reason behind the crisis is a growing emotional disconnect in society. People are physically present but mentally absent, leading to a sense of isolation.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Careers going nowhere. Bodies moving. Minds drowning. Obesity. Tension. Anxiety. Depression. Nobody talks about it. Everyone is experiencing it,&#8221; he wrote.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are a society that is physically the most present &#8211; and mentally the most absent. Sitting in the same room as their family. Gone somewhere else inside their head.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The real crisis isn&#8217;t in the economy. It&#8217;s happening inside people &#8211; silently, heavily, every single day.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Also read |\u00a0<a class=\"sp_lnk2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ndtv.com\/feature\/who-will-survive-the-ai-revolution-palantir-ceo-alex-karp-shares-his-view-11269572\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Who Will Survive The AI Revolution? Palantir CEO Alex Karp Shares His View<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Social Media Reaction<\/p>\n<p>The post went viral with over 23,200 views and hundreds of likes. Online users took to the comment section to share their point of view. &#8220;The real tragedy is that most people have already decided their life is supposed to feel this way. They&#8217;ve normalised the suffocation so well that peace feels like a luxury they&#8217;re not allowed to have,&#8221; one user wrote.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;ve traded presence for proximity. Being in the same room is no longer the same as being together. It&#8217;s like we&#8217;re all running on 1% battery, trying to power a life that requires 100% just to break even,&#8221; wrote another.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The economy gets dashboards and headlines. The inside of a person gets silence and &#8216;you&#8217;ll be fine&#8217;. That asymmetry is itself part of the problem,&#8221; a third wrote.<\/p>\n<p>                                                                                                                    <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Prafull Billore, founder of MBA Chai Wala, has highlighted a pressing issue in India that&#8217;s affecting people&#8217;s personal&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":354068,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[134,187247,554,555,111,139,69,187246,187251,187248,187249,187250],"class_list":{"0":"post-354067","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mental-health","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-mba-chaiwala","10":"tag-mental-health","11":"tag-mentalhealth","12":"tag-new-zealand","13":"tag-newzealand","14":"tag-nz","15":"tag-prafull-billore","16":"tag-prafull-billore-message","17":"tag-prafull-billore-post","18":"tag-prafull-billore-tweet","19":"tag-prafull-billore-twitter"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354067","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=354067"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354067\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/354068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=354067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=354067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=354067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}