Social media made trading look glamorous. I started with ₹30,000 and posted screenshots whenever I made ₹5,000 or ₹10,000. Soon I was using credit cards and personal loans for options.
At 24, I owed around ₹18 lakh. My father found out when recovery calls reached his number. He helped negotiate the loans but refused to simply pay everything, saying I needed to participate in repairing the damage.