The Mind Matters column of this fortnight, titled “Students in stress” by the Editor-in-Chief of the Open Journal of Psychiatry & Allied Sciences (OJPAS®), Shyamanta Das in the Horizon, the supplement of The Assam Tribune, discusses the research article, “A cross-sectional comparative study of coping distress in medical and non-medical students” of Shiva Kumar BK, Jibin Babu K, and Krishnamurthy CN, and published in OJPAS®.