...kho na jayen TAARE ZAMEEN PAR..!!

Sunken beneath the burden of books.....

....or high atop over the mountains of expectations...

the place where they find all solitude.....

.....and they drown or fall apart, left with incinerated fortitude......

....Childhood, the most beutiful span of our lives, when our unravelling mind is intermingled in its own world of fantasies,dreams, hopes and imagination - far away from the harsh realities of this savage world. It is a spell when the foundation is created, the plinth is settled, the base is strengthened, so that it determines the extent upto which we can strive, survive, fight and sustain in this combative society. But what if this base is weak....!! The building collapses in its early period itself...and thats what is happening today.....

Every now and then, their are news of CHILD SUICIDES and such cases of chidren indulging in extremely violent activities and crimes so serious as murders...

For an inctance, Mumbai recently witnessed shocking cases of children committing suicides which were just enetring or have entered their teenage. A girl hanging herself from the roof when she had a minor argument with her neighbour. A boy commiting suicide in the same way, with a suicide note telling that hehas no apecific reason to do such and is just fed up of life. Bangalore witnessed a case of 4 school girls commiting suicide together by taking poison, alleging that - there's no reason that compelled them to do so, just that they wanted to live as well as die together.

These are just some of those several cases where the children doing so, have no particular reason as such; apart from those inumerable ones in which the reason is either a failure in exams or in their so-called premature love relationships. It has been now a trend to catch few lines of such Teenage suicides at the time of and after the declaration of the results of board examinations.

Then to talk about the teenage violence and crimes, we all can never forget those breath-taking incidents cited all over the world-media, one being the famoue case of an American university where a Korean student enraged and massacred some 20 students in the campus by a machine-gun. Then there was a case where in the University of Lousiana, two indian students were shot to death.

Reciting those eye-pinning headlines from the pages of indian dailies,i think everyone of us have read the famous case of a Gurgaon, school boy allegedly killing his classmate with a gun he took from his father's shelf. Then, there are are cases of such incidents where a children indulge in such gang activities.

What's the bottomline ?? What's the psychology behind such merciless and tragic incidents?? Why is the sprouting generation getting devoid of human feelings and who is to be balamed for inculcating those levels of insecurity, fear, and rage that a child's mind, which frightens by a mere sight of rumpus, doesn't beseeches on giving or taking a life...??

The most common trend of today's society is formation of Nucleur families and to add to the 'essence' for the loneliness of children, both the parents working. They yearn for their parents love, affection, time and vigilance. They feel as noone cares for them or is affected by their existence. This creates a sort of emotional void and psychological numbness.

Another demon to be blamed for such pityful condition of the young generation's mind is the media - television, internet and film industry at a glance. Now, in my opinion, parents are no more the first and foremost teachers to their children, its the TV. They watch different kinds of shows, and all sorts of vulgar entertainment served by the television. Fashion, glamour, sex, crime, betrayal...are the various commodities of media. Eventhough not meant for children, they can not remain untouched by these untimely 'lessons' that they gain from it. Child crimes, early puberty are all sort of visible changes seen by all of us in these recent years.

Competition is another upheaval in a child's innocent life. Right from the day he goes to school, he's faced and forced to compete in the arena of merciless cutthroat competitiveness where his imagination is all buried under the burden of hopes and aspirations of his parents and the society.

Whatever the reason stands, howsoever these upbringings done, the only victim is the inculpable childhood. We will have to understand this that no building can be made out of a fractured bedrock, and similarly a progressive nation can only be built on the culmination of these young healthy and unsullied youngsters.