Two days ago, the burden of debts was about to push 45-year-old Dhanraj Shinde over the edge. It was his 14-year-old son who saved him. Noticing his father walking briskly towards his field, without his phone or his usual bag of tools, Prithviraj stopped. "I saw him bundling a rope and I tried to calm him down, telling him we would be left with no one to take care of us if he killed himself," recalled the teenager, adding, "He was under immense stress."