ABOUT THE BOOK:- With failure in examination accounting for nearly 2 per cent of the total suicides taking place in India every year, high stress the youths are undergoing is emerging as a big killer. Every year during the period of publication of results of boards exam and competition, the newspapers are full of reports of students, both boys and girls, taking the extreme step after wrongly coming to the conclusion that there is no life beyond the failure. The book “Suicide? There is always a tomorrow” intends to highlight the magnitude of the problem which is taking out flame of many a family every year. The book based on personal experiences as well those of colleagues and juniors deals the subject comprehensively by tracing background to such high-pressure situation for a student carrying burden of expectations of his/her family. In the mad rush to see their ward become a “Bada Admi” (top professional), parents and peers forget the capability and aptitude of a student to take the extra load. Unable to cop
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Imprint
Gen Next Publications
Publication Year
2016
Table of Contents
Contents:- Foreword . 7 Preface . 11 Acknowledgements . 13 Introduction . 15 Chapter 1 How Big is the Problem? . 21 Chapter 2 Reasons for Kissing Death . 51 Chapter 3 Means not an Obstacle in the Way of Success . 79 Chapter 4 Social Dimension of Efforts to Lift Literacy Among Girls . 91 Chapter 5 Side-effects of Over Stress Among Students/youths .115 Chapter 6 Life Beyond Failure . 123 Chapter 7 Societal Responsibility to Rescue Youths from Stress . 145 Index . 181
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About The Author:- Born on December 30, 1966, Sanjay Kumar Sinha did his matriculation from St Xaviers High School, Patna in 1982. After completing 10+2 from The Air Force School, Subrato Park in New Delhi, he graduated in History (Honours) from Delhi University. He did Post Graduation in Sociology from Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) in 1989. A journalist by profession for the last 21 years with the premier news agency The Press Trust of India (PTI), Sanjay Kumar Sinha is presently posted as Chief of Bureau of Bihar at Patna. The theme of the book has been chosen carefully on the basis of own experience and watching many colleagues and juniors drowning in sorrow after low marks in an exam or failing to crack a competition. Sandwitched between a generation which has seen values of past generation and a fast-paced life of present one, the author longs for a solution to this feeling of reaching a dead end in life over failure in one or two exams