Not a single day has passed since last week when I haven't heard of news of students committing suicide. It's quite weird for sure, that all of them are hanging themselves when so many painless methods are available. I am not being sarcastic, instead I want to point out to the reason that everybody is discussing already- 3 idiots, the movie.
While watching the movie as many times as one can, nobody noticed one thing. It's Joy Lobo's ghost. The entire movie sympathises Joy and his suicide serves as a purpose, scantily however, to sketch the tailing portions of the story. In other words his act of cowardice complements the sole theme of the movie viz. condemning the education system. This is perhaps what is compelling the students these days, who were already at the brink of a breakdown, to take themselves to the next level which they consider as emancipation. Who is going to frame them for this act. But unfortunately they have shown nothing wrong. Students died even before the movie was there, but after it the cases surged.
The govt has tried every possible measure to improve the mental health of people but it appears that the students have been least affected. All of us clamour for a neo education system that rewards individual talent instead of conventional wisdom, while we are very well acquainted to the fact that it's a long and tedious journey. So are we embarked on it? The answer seems like a yes. But by the time we reach the destination we'd have lost comrades counting to numbers of enormous proportions. It's a Genocide, a disease that has to be controlled first, before seeking out for the cure.
