The Beautiful Life

Students under exam time pressure  It is that time of the year when board exams are on and children crumble under intense pressure to give their best. The number of adolescents committing suicide increases during this phase of the academic year. Experts explain that out of the multiple reasons for students committing suicide, one of the major causes is the inability to handle stress. There are many students who handle stress effectively, many learn from their failures and move ahead in life. The possibility of suicidal tendencies is likely to occur in combination with several circumstances that seem to over-load teens with stress and hence make them unable to cope with the challenges of adolescence which lead to increase in stress. Multiple factors are held responsible for a person’s suicide and that failure in exams need not be a single cause. Many students are under increased pressure due to multi-tasking as they are expected to remain attentive and perform in scho...

Sahitya Akademi winning author Jayant Pawar has been a writer, critic and playwright for the past three decades. He spoke about how intellectuals can go beyond art and generate awareness among the masses against the ongoing situation of intolerance in the country in an interview with Chitra Sawant. Q What would you like to say on blatant attacks being carried out on writers and students? A: BJP considers the secular social fabric of this country as a major threat to its governance process. For them, there is no threat from the Islamic fundamentalists. Their idea is that if the secularists are controlled, then it is easy to control the minorities, Muslims and Christians. BJP wants to rule in the name of religion. We have people from different groups, sects, religions residing together in our country, and this is possible because of the principles of our Indian Constitution. Hindu culture is very vast there have been several sects, groups which were not following the Vedic-Hinduism...