Monday, August 4, 2014
Another ‘Bend It Like Beckham’ , this time from Maharashtra
Another ‘Bend It Like Beckham’ , this time from Maharashtra
Jalna girl selected to play in World Cup Football of a different kind in South America
Mumbai | Jalna : July 31, 2014
Jalna girl Rohini Pashte has been selected to represent India at the Homeless World Cup Football in Santiago, Chile this October. It’s indeed a matter of great pride for 12-year-old who has come a long way from her village of Pithori Shirasgaon in Ambad block of Jalna district. ..
The
differences between Pithori Shirasgaon and the Chilean capital could not be
starker. While Rohini’s village is home to a mere 2000 people, Santiago, with
6.3 million population is among the prosperous cities of Latin America.
No
girl from Jalna has ever travelled to South America. Rohini Pashte will be the
first to make the 14,300-kilometre-long journey from Maharashtra’s Marathwada
region to Chile. This will also be the first time she will be travelling by airplane
- something the pre-teen or, for that matter, anyone in her family and village
had ever dreamed.
What
makes Rohini’s accomplishment all the more striking is that she comes from a
region that is notorious for the continued prevalence of a practice that was
outlawed over 80 years ago: child marriage. It is still common for girls in
Marathwada to be forced to drop out of school and be married off by their 13th
birthday. Many die prematurely during childbirth. In fact, Rohini’s elder
sister was married off at the age of 14. This was due to a social mindset that
views girls as liabilities and doesn’t privilege their rights or education. Needless
to say, the sister’s fate was also sealed by poverty.
The
Pashtes are a poor family, leading a hand-to-mouth existence. They own a 2-acre
plot of land. Rohini’s father died some years ago and the onus of earning a
livelihood fell on their mother. She works as a daily wage labourer on other
farmers’ fields, earning a meagre sum of Rs 70-100 per day, well below the
minimum wage. Working from dawn to dusk,
the mother could not give her children as much attention as she wanted, let
alone their education. So Rohini’s grandfather took her brother under his care
to secure his right to education. But Rohini, being a girl was left behind. Her
mother made her drop out of school in class 4 to work alongside her in the
field to make ends meet. But this didn’t diminish the young girl’s desire to go
to school.
One
day Rohini’s uncle mentioned that a new school had opened in Ambad: the
Kasturba Gandhi Balika Vidyalaya, a government-supported, NGO-run boarding
school where education, food, clothing, bedding and medicines are provided free
of cost to underprivileged girls from disadvantaged communities-girls like
Rohini.
At
first, Rohini’s mother was sceptical about sending her daughter to a school 30
kilometres away, as she herself had never set foot outside their village. But
when she heard that the school would provide her daughter all the facilities
free of cost, she decided to send Rohini there. And this proved to be a turning
point in the young girl’s life!
Recalling
her early days at KGBV, teachers say she was a shy and reticent. Rohini felt
overwhelmed by her new surroundings and peers. She kept to herself and barely
managed to keep up in the classroom. But it was in the field of sports that she
showed her potential. which was rightly spotted by the sports teacher Rafiq
Sheikh. He encouraged Rohini to participate in every game. He also introduced
her to Radha Shinde, an older student and budding sportsperson. “Radha is like
an elder sister to me. With her guidance I was able to perform both in the
classroom and the playground” says Rohini.
Initially,
Rohini took part in only Kho kho and track events . Then when she watched Radha playing football, she felt inspired
and followed in her footsteps. Soon Rohini began to excel in the sport that required
magic feet..
“After
joining KGBV, I received quality training in sports. In our school both studies
and sports are given equal importance. I love sports so much that I don’t feel
like going home during the vacations. I feel like staying back in school to
practise”, Rohini chuckles.
It
has been four years since Rohini began playing football and Kho kho. She has
represented the school at various competitions across the state. Rafiq Sheikh
makes it a point to ensure that the girls participate in every inter-school
competition to gain exposure and confidence. “He tells us before every match
that no matter how small the villages we come from, we can outshine any school,
in any sport if we practise hard and play well. This motto is engrained in our
minds,” says Rohini. When Rohini goes back to her village for the holidays, she
gathers all the girls together to impart sports training. At first, this didn’t
go down well with many, including Rohini's mother, who believed, “It doesn’t
look nice for girls to be so boisterous and play football.” But ever since Rohini
got selected to play internationally, the mood and mindset towards sports in
Pithori Shirasgaon had gradually changed. Posters have been put up around
the village congratulating Rohini on her success.
It
is this “yes, we can” spirit that saw Rohini’s team winning the Panchayat Yuva
Krida aur Khel Abhiyan, held in Jalgaon in 2013 under the initiative of
Ministry of Sports & Youth Affairs. It was at this event that a
representative from Slum Soccer spotted Rohini and signed her up. Slum Soccer
is a non-profit organisation that reaches out to the homeless, slum-dwellers
and disadvantaged children from villages, using football as a tool for social
empowerment. At a football event organised by Slum Soccer in Nagpur, Rohini was
selected to represent India in Santiago, Chile. There she will meet, interact
and play football with 500 children from 64 participating nations from around
the world.
About
the Homeless World Cup
The
Homeless World Cup was founded by Mel
Young from Scotland and Harald Schmied from Austria, who came up with
the idea at a conference on homelessness, in Cape Town in 2001. They both
believed that it was possible to “change the lives of homeless people through
football” and two years later in 2003, the first Homeless World Cup tournament
took place in Graz in Austria.
The
Homeless World Cup uses the power of football to energise homeless people so
they can change their own lives. It supports grass-roots football programmes
and social enterprise development via a network of 70 national partners and
celebrates its work by organising an annual football tournament that unites
teams of homeless people from countries all around the globe.
Union Minister for Minority Affairs, Ms Najma Heptulla on Sunday inaugurated the New Horizon Child Development Cente and Hearing Aid Centre for Adults and Children
Union Minister for Minority Affairs, Ms Najma Heptulla on Sunday inaugurated the New Horizon Child Development Cente and Hearing Aid Centre for Adults and Children at Goregaon, Mumbai. The Centre provides services for differently abled children and they include Developmental Pediatrics, Clinical Psychology and Counseling, Occupational Therapy, Speech Therapy, Remedial Education and Nutrition. Dr. Najma Heptulla in her address stressed on the need for such comprehensive Child Development Centres all over the country to address the needs of the differently abled children
Wednesday, July 9, 2014
Breaking Barriers in Heart Care-Chelation Therapy
Breaking
Barriers in Heart Care
Everyone knows that smoking is
bad for health. It can cause heart disease, peripheral arterial disease (PAD),
cancer, Alzheimer’s and a whole host of other problems. For years,
scientists assumed that the damage was done either by the smoke or the nicotine.
A new study on a group of smokers found something very surprising. The
researchers discovered high levels of lead and cadmium in blood of those with
artery damage. Those with the highest blood levels of these metals were three
times more likely to develop PAD. The scientists concluded
that not the smoke, but the heavy metals in cigarette smoke damage the lining
of arteries, leading to more pronounced disease.
These metals don’t have to be very high to
cause problems and the arterial disease can be was associated with lead
concentrations only 13% higher than those without PAD. The toxins in cigarette
smoke affect even non smokers and as the heavy metals are everywhere they are easily
absorbed from the environment and many edibles. A little lead enter our body
every time we sip coffee from a ceramic mug or smudges the fingers with lead
containing ink when reading the daily newspaper. Even the computer monitor and
television set contain lead and many candles contain lead in their wicks that raise
the concentration of lead in the air when they burn.
The good news is that toxic heavy metals can
be removed with a process known as chelation therapy. Medical practitioners
have treated atherosclerotic disease that causes heart attack with chelation
therapy for over 50 years. Till now lack of strong evidence relegated chelation
therapy to complementary medicine practitioners, who reported good results.
Over time evidence linking metals with cardiovascular disease and mortality
gradually accumulated, suggesting a possible role for chelation therapy. Based
on this concept the Trial to Assess Chelation Therapy (TACT) was conducted. In
the study intravenous EDTA based chelation with multivitamins and
multi-minerals was given. Total 1708 patients aged 50 years or above, who had
already had a heart attack were studied. The treatment proved to be safe and
reduced overall cardiovascular events by 18%. The benefit in patients with
diabetes mellitus was even better with a 41% reduction in need for treatment.
Dr Sibia, Director of
Sibia Medical Centre, Ludhiana introduced this service in India in the early 1990’s
and hence is fondly referred to as Father of Chelation Therapy in India. He said
“The study validates what we are doing. Worldwide millions of patients with
heart disease and poor circulation have chosen this treatment. We have
personally seen benefit from chelation so we recommend it to our patients who
want an alternative to surgery or stents. Chelation is safe and we have done
over 2300 chelations in the year 2013 and most of our patients are satisfied.
As we provide ACAM (USA) protocol and international treatments at Indian cost
popularity of our centre among overseas patients is increasing and patients
from over 30 countries have availed various treatments at Sibia Medical Centre.
Chelation Therapy can be life saving for patients who are unfit for surgery,
where bypass or stent has failed and those who want to avoid surgery. An
educational website www.chelation.in provides more details of this treatment.”
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About Dr Sibia
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Dr.S.S.Sibia MBBS, MD (Internal
Medicine), Director and Senior Consultant, Sibia Medical Centre, Ludhiana,
India.
Contact:
Mb: +91-9814034818, Office: +91-161-2444818
www.CytotronTreatment.com
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Key
words
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Heart Care, smoking,
health, peripheral arterial disease, PAD, Cancer, Alzheimer, lead, cadmium,
artery damage, metals, cigarette, arteries, arterial disease, toxic heavy
metals, chelation therapy, atherosclerotic disease, cardiovascular disease,
Trial to Assess Chelation Therapy, TACT, intravenous
EDTA, heart attack,
cardiovascular, Dr Sibia, Sibia Medical Centre, Father of Chelation Therapy,
heart disease, poor circulation, alternative to surgery or stents, life
saving, unfit for surgery, bypass or stent has failed, avoid surgery,
chelation.in, +91-9814034818, drsibia@sssibia.com
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Summary:
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Breaking Barriers in Heart Care: Increased heavy metals in blood damages the
arteries and can cause heart disease, peripheral arterial disease (PAD),
etc. Doctors have been treating heart attack causing atherosclerosis
with chelation therapy to remove heavy metals and thus breaking the link
between metals and cardiovascular disease.
The Trial to Assess Chelation
Therapy (TACT) conducted to verify the effects of Chelation Therapy proved it
to be safe and reduced overall cardiovascular events by 18%. Benefit diabetes
mellitus was even better with a 41% reduction in need for treatment.
Dr Sibia recommends
Chelation Therapy for patients unfit for surgery, with failed bypass or stent
and those who want to avoid surgery or stents.
Dr.S.S.Sibia, MD in
Internal Medicine is Director and Senior Consultant at Sibia Medical Centre,
India. He maintains an educational website www.chelation.in and can be
contacted at Mb: +91-9814034818 or Email: drsibia@sssibia.com.
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Tuesday, July 8, 2014
AASRA 's 'A simple Orientation to Suicide Prevention Understanding' by Johnson Thomas at HELP library on 12th July, Saturday at 3.30 pm
http://www.youtube.com/attribution_link?a=v0FTz825YOY&u=/watch%3Fv%3DyvcWeEqwj1w%26feature%3Dem-share_video_user
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Mr. Rashid Merchant
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Humorous Insights into Rules of Effective Communication & Success Part 2
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3.30pm
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Ms. Rukmini Iyer
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Bach Flower Therapy Part 7: Colours & the Bach Remedies
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3.30pm
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Mr. Anand Ghurye
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Face Reading for Good Health Part 2
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3.30pm
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Col. Amarjit Nagi
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Harmony in Relationship – How to Achieve it, How to Maintain it
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3.30pm
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Mr. Nilesh Mandlecha
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Sant Kabir & Mental Health
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Mon 7 July
3.30pm
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Ms. Paulomi Pandit
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HypnoBirthing
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3.30pm
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Mr. Aminali Panjwani
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Knee pain, Back pain, Cervical Pain, Joint pain & Heaviness in the Body
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3.30pm
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Dr. Swati Joshi
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First House in Astrology
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Thu 10 July
3.30pm
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Mr. B.V. Gokhale
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EDTA Chelation Therapy for Prevention and Cure
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3.00pm
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Mr. Gavin Watterson
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Practical Self Empowering talk on Optimizing Health, Fitness & Wellness – Video Screening of HELP Talk
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Sat 12 July
3.30pm
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Mr. Johnson Thomas
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Suicide Awareness
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3.30pm
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Ms. Kamlesh Lakhera
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Yoga for Holistic Health –
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Child Development – Challenges and Directions
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Monday, June 30, 2014
Write-up on Aasra in the BBC
Write-up on Aasra in the BBC
Write-up on Aasra in the BBC
4 December 2012Last updated at 14:50 GMT
Shantanu Negi’s friends initially believed his Facebook post to be a joke
Shantanu Negi’s Facebook suicide prompts shock in India
By Shalini Joshi Dehradun
Shantanu Negi’s friends initially believed his Facebook post to be a joke
An Indian student has killed himself after posting a Facebook suicide note.
“Bye everyone… I will miss you… I quit,” wrote Shantanu Negi, 16. Police think he was worried about an exam.
His friends initially believed it to be a joke, with many “liking” his last post and others commenting on it before they found out what happened.
Counsellors working with the social media site to improve reporting and support say many such cases in India are referred but few result in death.
Shantanu’s death occurred at home in the northern town of Dehradun on Monday evening.
Within hours, as the news of the suicide spread, his shocked friends started writing condolence messages.
“Shantanu killed himself because he was worried that he won’t do well in his mathematics examination,” police officer Dinesh Singh Bhandari told the BBC.
A student of class 11 in the prestigious Asian School, Shantanu was a good student who had scored 90% marks in his class 10 examinations.
“Recently, he seemed to have lost interest in studies. We had talked to him about it, but there was no pressure on him,” his father Pushkar Negi said.
From his Facebook profile, Shantanu appeared to be like any other happy and carefree teenager and his school said there had never been any complaints about him.
Helpline Last year, Facebook launched a system to allow users in India and elsewhere to report friends who they think may be contemplating suicide.
In India, the social networking site added the Mumbai-based Aasra suicide prevention helpline – part of the Befrienders Worldwide/Samaritans network – as part of its suicide risk alert system.
Johnson Thomas of Aasra told the BBC that in the past year they had intervened in more than 300 cases forwarded to them by Facebook.
Once a case has been flagged by worried friends, trained counsellors from the helpline email users offering to help them.
“We tell them we are worried and concerned about them. We cannot invade their privacy, but we request them to call us,” Mr Thomas said.
“Very often they do and we talk them out of it. Some just stop posting such messages because they realise they have friends who care for them.”
Mr Thomas says Shantanu “needed reassurance that not performing well in one exam is not a reason to kill himself. We all need people around us to support us.”
His friends initially believed it to be a joke, with many “liking” his last post and others commenting on it before they found out what happened.
Counsellors working with the social media site to improve reporting and support say many such cases in India are referred but few result in death.
Shantanu’s death occurred at home in the northern town of Dehradun on Monday evening.
Within hours, as the news of the suicide spread, his shocked friends started writing condolence messages.
“Shantanu killed himself because he was worried that he won’t do well in his mathematics examination,” police officer Dinesh Singh Bhandari told the BBC.
A student of class 11 in the prestigious Asian School, Shantanu was a good student who had scored 90% marks in his class 10 examinations.
“Recently, he seemed to have lost interest in studies. We had talked to him about it, but there was no pressure on him,” his father Pushkar Negi said.
From his Facebook profile, Shantanu appeared to be like any other happy and carefree teenager and his school said there had never been any complaints about him.
Helpline Last year, Facebook launched a system to allow users in India and elsewhere to report friends who they think may be contemplating suicide.
In India, the social networking site added the Mumbai-based Aasra suicide prevention helpline – part of the Befrienders Worldwide/Samaritans network – as part of its suicide risk alert system.
Johnson Thomas of Aasra told the BBC that in the past year they had intervened in more than 300 cases forwarded to them by Facebook.
Once a case has been flagged by worried friends, trained counsellors from the helpline email users offering to help them.
“We tell them we are worried and concerned about them. We cannot invade their privacy, but we request them to call us,” Mr Thomas said.
“Very often they do and we talk them out of it. Some just stop posting such messages because they realise they have friends who care for them.”
Mr Thomas says Shantanu “needed reassurance that not performing well in one exam is not a reason to kill himself. We all need people around us to support us.”
Related Stories
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07 MARCH 2011, TECHNOLOGY
- 7 March 2011Last updated at 16:58 GMT
Facebook adds Samaritans suicide risk alert system
Rory Cellan-Jones shows how the system worksFacebook is launching a system that allows users to report friends who they think may be contemplating suicide.The feature is being run in conjunction with Samaritans, which said several people had used it during a test phase.
Anyone worried about a friend can fill out a form, detailing their concerns, which is passed to the social networking site’s moderators.
It follows reports of several cases where Facebook users announced their intention to commit suicide online.
The reporting page asks for the address (URL) of the Facebook page where the messages are posted, the full name of the user and details of any networks they are members of.
Suicide-related alerts will be escalated to the highest level, for attention by Facebook’s user operations team.
Police alert “When a report is made, they then assess whether they need to call the police immediately or forward it on to us,” said Samaritans’ Nicola Peckett.
Facebook said that it had always been its policy to notify police if a user was at risk of imminent bodily harm.
The system had been operating in a trial mode, without publicity for three months, during which it received several genuine reports and no hoaxes, according to Samaritans.
It is hoped that the new reporting mechanism will help prevent cases like that of Simone Back, who died on Christmas day after taking a drug overdose.
The charity worker from Brighton had written about her intention to kill herself on her Facebook page.
Several of her friends commented on the message, however no-one raised the alarm.
Samaritans said that the new system was not launched in relation to one specific case, but to raise awareness of the ways in which people could get help. -
22 SEPTEMBER 2011, SOUTH ASIA
India police investigate Bangalore ‘Facebook suicide’
Malini Murmu was reported to be upset by ‘derogatory’ Facebook comments
Police in India are looking for the former boyfriend of a student who allegedly committed suicide after he ended their relationship on Facebook.Malini Murmu is reported to have hanged herself on Sunday in Bangalore. Her father has demanded that her former boyfriend, Abhishek Dhan, be arrested.
Police say they are investigating whether the comments on Facebook amount to aiding and abetting suicide.
The whereabouts of Mr Dhan – also a student – are currently unknown.
Malini Murmu was a first year MBA student in the Indian Institute of Management (IIM) in Bangalore.
Ms Murmu’s family say that Mr Dhan’s Facebook account contained derogatory references to her – now deleted – which “forced her to take such a drastic step”.
In the comments on Sunday he wrote about being “relieved” and “feeling cool” after “dumping his girlfriend”. The pair had reportedly had a row earlier on.
Ms Murmu’s father told the BBC that her death had left the family devastated.-
27 JUNE 2012, INDIA
- 27 June 2012Last updated at 07:23 GMT
Article written by Soutik Biswas Delhi correspondent
Why are young Indians killing themselves?
Suicide has become the second leading cause of death among young Indians
In the end, wrote Albert Camus, one needs more courage to live than to kill oneself.If new research is to be believed, a disturbingly high number of young Indians are losing the courage.
A study published in the medical journal The Lancet shows that suicide has become the second leading cause of death among the country’s young adults, after road accidents in men, and childbirth-related complications in women.
There were 187,000 deaths from suicides in India in 2010, the study says – this is higher than the official figure of 134,599 suicide deaths from the National Crime Records Bureau. (Researchers attribute this gap to under-reporting or misreporting as friendly or bribe-seeking coroners often sign off suicide deaths as ones caused by accidents to protect the victim’s family from police harassment and social stigma.)
If the findings by a team of doctors are to be believed, 40% of the men and 56% of the women who took their lives in 2010 were aged between 15 and 29 years.
The suicide rate in Indian women aged 15 years or older is more than two and a half times greater than it is in women of the same age in high-income countries, and nearly as high in China. The corresponding rate in men in the same group is between one to two times greater in men of the same age in high-income countries.
I asked Dr Vikram Patel, a leading Goa-based psychiatrist and professor at the London School Of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, who co-authored the study, about why he thought this was happening.
He believes that joblessness for men and post-marriage problems for women trigger off a lot of these suicides. “In women it manifests in depression, in men it becomes a drinking problem,” he says.
India is a society steeped in the patriarchal tradition, where most women are still expected to stay at home, and bring up children. But more and more women are stepping out to work and aspiring to be independent and successful. But pressures of family, demands for dowry and domestic harassment – and violence – push many such young, married women over the edge in the country’s teeming cities and towns.
“This is what I call the aspirational reality gap,” says Dr Patel. “Exposure to global media, education doesn’t match up to the realities at home. A touch of anomie worsens matters. Suicide is seen as a potential way out of it.” Perhaps not surprising in a society which lives with one foot in tradition, and the other in modernity.
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