SOME months ago, this magazine published a tally of young students who had taken their lives while preparing for competitive exams in Kota, Rajasthan’s coaching-centre city. They had either failed or given up under pressure.
The deaths we added up were for the previous six months and that was depressing enough. It was worse to think that such deaths had been happening for a long time and that their number continues to go up.
Putting the tally together was relatively easy. Each death had been reported in the newspapers and there was a public record staring at us. . .
