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“India tops the world in suicides among teenagers. Exam stress and depression are key reasons but other urban pressures are taking a heavy toll” says the cover note article of India Today magazine.

Here’s the sketchy view of the article:

• 16 suicides a day or 6000 a year is the rate at which teenagers snuff out their lives in India.
• 2006-07, 5875 students took their own life. ( NCRB)
• Every 90 minutes a teenage tries to commit suicide.
• But every 6 hours, one succeeds.
• 56% teen suicides in the country are reported between March and July, every year
• More adolescents die of suicide than AIDS, cancer, heart disease, obesity, birth defects and lung disease.  
• The worse is the suicide notes that this people write. Blaming nobody but taking the charge of their own life and making the decision of ‘Goodbye’.
• 35% youngsters complain that they have too many things to do everyday
• 33% feel lonely because they don’t have enough friends to spend time with
• 33% irritated at the frequent scolding from parent and teachers
• 31% fear major exams, while 26% complain about frequent test at school
• 29% get irked at the constant reminders from parents to study
• 21% get anxious over school work and problems with teachers. 

In contrast, long time back, understanding the power of youth, and to revolutionize them, Mahatma Gandhi published an English journal called ‘Young India’. Even the global marketers see India as a very lucrative market for its largest number of Young population and India is considered, to be the next best untapped market after China.

What a contrast!  Blame it on the modern day influences or present day “contemporaneousness” or individualist lifestyle. Whatever, but the truth is modernism, has given simplicity of doing things. Seeking value beyond low-prices. Luxury and indulgences. Greater experiences. And global space. Everything at ease, just a click away!  

However, in search of shortcuts, youngsters are also ending-up in the short way. Their fragile base leaves them with no hopes. Searching for the easy way out, they fall on even the simplest and silliest of pressures. Rather than accepting people, they turn towards selfish pleasures. Communicating truth and facing the truth, is no more the fashion. Eat, drink and sleep is the attitude they wear. Outdated it is now, to remember things and to think critically; now the in-thing is to be influenced. What you wear? What you do? With whom you are? Whom you look-alike?

All and all, have killed the soul of the man. The character that was supposed to grow has started to imitate others. Killing his own-self, he now withdraws back into the land of loneliness. Clicking away from his loved ones, paving the way for an easy way-out. Suicide!  

Tags: depression, Exam stress, Suicide, urban pressure

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