The Equilibrio Gazette
A brief buletin for building safe workspaces!
12th September 2025 | Issue No. 98
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In the Spotlight!
Explore ways to build your knowledge and capacity with our team of in-house experts!
On World Suicide Prevention Day, we revisited a conversation that truly matters.
Earlier this week, we hosted a Live Panel Discussion on Suicide Prevention: Awareness, Action, and Support — where experts shared invaluable insights, strategies. They even shared resources to help us respond with empathy, care, and courage when it comes to suicide prevention.
At Equilibrio Advisory LLP, we help organisations build safe, respectful workplaces. Recently, our associate Vasantha Kotagiri led an POSH Act, 2013 Internal Committee Training for Karya in Bangalore Leading with insight and non-judgement, Vasantha created a space for all the queries of the IC members to be answered in a clear cogent manner.
📢 Upcoming IC Training Alert!
Join our next session on 8–9 Oct to empower your IC with essential POSH skills.
We’re excited to reveal the guest speakers for our upcoming DEIB Certification Course, In This Together — Pawan Dhall, Flower Boy, Deepti Sreeram, and Vijay Krishnamani!
The speakers, coming from diverse intersections, will share the insights and wisdom from their lived experiences to help you create structures that champion true Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Belonging at work.
Stay Current!
~ Spotlighting Landmark Judgments since passing of the Law!
I - LEGAL UPDATES
II - Exploring Intersections
On World Suicide Prevention Day, we reflect on the Supreme Court of India’s landmark July 25, 2025 judgment, affirming mental health as part of the Right to Life under Article 21 of the Constitution of India—and mandating institutional accountability in educational spaces.
Read on to see how schools and coaching centres must reform.
Engage with us!
Here's your weekly food for thought through a Fun Fact or Quiz.
Did you know? India’s fertility patterns are undergoing a major shift. The country’s Total Fertility Rate (TFR) dropped to 1.9 in 2023, with 18 states and union territories now below the replacement level of 2.1. Bihar reported the highest fertility at 2.8, while Delhi recorded the lowest at 1.2. The Crude Birth Rate also fell to 18.4, alongside a decline in infant mortality to 25 per 1,000 live births. Despite these gains, challenges remain—India’s sex ratio at birth is skewed at 917 girls per 1,000 boys, highlighting persistent gender imbalance even as population growth slows.
Have a burning question about POSH? Maybe Mental Health at Work, Child safety or DEI&B strategies? Drop us an email with your query and we would love to answer it, in all seriousness.
Curious Cat:
Why are suicide rates disproportionately high among autistic individuals, and what can be done to address this issue?
Answer:
Research by Bournemouth and Cambridge universities reveals that 1 in 4 autistic adults have attempted suicide, compared to 1 in 37 non-autistic adults. Contributing factors include early-life challenges such as bullying, social exclusion, peer pressure to ‘mask’ autistic traits, and limited access to timely healthcare and diagnosis.
Neurodivergent activists emphasize the need for collective social change—believing and affirming autistic experiences, improving access to social care and benefits, speeding up autism assessments with inclusive criteria, providing clear post-diagnostic support plans, training professionals in autism awareness, and establishing trauma-informed support systems. These measures are essential to create safer, more supportive environments and reduce suicide risks among autistic individuals.
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