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hat is different about elections in Kerala? For one, it is nothing short of a miracle to get your own voter's identity card. Everyone was asking me to vote, so by December 2013, I

decided to apply for the card. And it turned out to be a roller coaster ride more difficult than the ones in Disneyland. Over 40 working hours in two months were invested for this effort since I considered it my duty to procure one even though the officer appeared hostile. And I heard that many people could not exercise their legitimate franchise in Maharashtra. And many applicants of voter's ID card could not get one yet. Election in India has immense possibility for entertainment. It is not a complete curry with the right masala, is as complicated as the election debate in India. Consider the alphabet soup. Congress(INC)UPA, NDA, SP, BSP, TMC, AIADMK, DMK, AAP, TRS, TDP, JD(U), JD(S), AG, CPI, CPI(M), NC, MNS, SAD, KJP, NCP and many more. You could be excused if you did not know most of these registered and organized political parties. And there are many more small parties and few 'senas'. You would not have missed the presence of Mamata, Mayawati, Jayalalita and Vasundhara Raje who are the most famous women faces in the political

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entrepreneurs wealthy.

Indian election? To govern, to bring

make a satire on the dramas that

growth and development? We also

happen in the election season?

need strict implementation of laws as

Perhaps not, as the larger drama of

guided by the Constitution of India.

campaigning is beamed into your

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Reservation and quotas in jobs and

bedrooms, dining rooms and mobiles

education must be restricted to three

by television channels. They are the

years to anyone. Then they must

other side of the alphabet soup.

compete like everyone else in a free

CNN IBN, APP, NDTV, ZEE, CNBC,

market like in sports and athletics.

ETV and ABP. I will not be surprised

The judicial system can do with a

if one day the Indian election

revamp so that they can expedite

information may encroach into

verdicts. And the judicial system can

channel V and MTV.

check the possibility of a uniform civil

Many catholic priests, Fr.Frazer

code for all citizen of India.

Mascarenhas, Shan Imran Bukhari,

The citizen can certainly be

Ramdev Baba and spiritual guru Sri

categorized into two, law abiding

Sri Ravishankar were not spared.

citizens and law violating citizens.

How does the global Indian view this

This is more legitimate than

virulence in his home country called

classifying as right, left of right,

India? The NRI in all good faith

centre of left and left. The role model

seems to be able to donate money to

has to inspire citizens to give their

favorite political parties, but they are

muscle, might and resources to clean

not an integral part of political action

up the system. If you do so, you can

because they are not allowed to vote.

determine the future of India.

But what is the objective of this

massive people movement called

Do we need standup comedians to

Yogesh U Dighe

othing is more frustrating than waiting and it increased tenfold when it's waiting for result. Result you waiting for can differ from job offer you gave interview couple of days ago for to result of academic year you are in. In my case waiting for positive reply from publisher for my book proposal and as time goes by our hope starts to glimmer and it may glow once again with positive result or it could fade away with negative result and if its negative result we get consumed by frustration and depression comes after facing negative results and it takes a lot of courage and efforts to pull ourselves from this quicksand of depression, and it became really helpful if we have someone to help us overcome this ugly phase of our life, and help us to become once again our original enthusiastic self and no one can do this job better than a trusted friend, but sometime it's hard to find someone to trust with our weaknesses and sorrows because nowadays friends tend to do mocking and teasing job lot better than being really helpful. That's why we tend to hide our depression and our broken self from others, and we work so hard to hide our depression from our friends and family so that we won't became target of their mocking. In time this became worse and soon in no time we became alone, sad from inside and distant from our loved ones. And one day when we look ourselves in mirror it looks like there is a stranger in front of us, and we ask our self who is this? This can't be me! Am not so depressed and sad. But truth is that it's not person standing in mirror changed it's just a mere reflection of person standing in front of the mirror who is changed. It's depressing isn't it? What I just described, but the damage done to ourselves by depression can be restored and we could be ourselves once again. All we have to do is to express what we feel. It's not wrong to feel sad and worried. It's not wrong to show

weakness and tell that we are afraid, even terrified sometimes. Because we are human and that's what we do. We feel emotions that's what make us alive and if we accepted our weak and depressed part of us we can move on and find a way to tackle with our problems. Dreams get broken and hopes get destroyed, but it's not the end of the world. There are thousands of more challenges ahead of us which we need to face and overcome them and one day we will achieve what we dreamed for ourselves. You can't lose if you keep fighting you can lose only if you gave up the fight and accepted your defeat. Being fail in exams, losing job in financially problematic situation, and many more things like this which are sad and make us depressed, but there always a silver lining to it. We just need to look for that silver lining. Unfortunate things like being fail in exam and many others we all suffer through every day they do happen and there is not a single soul lived in this world who never gone through situations like this before. Even greatest warrior like 'Arjuna' got depressed before big battle of kurukshetra. That's why 'Lord Krishna' guided him and us with holy book 'Geeta'. We all may not be lucky as to have Lord Krishna as our guide and friend, but still we can get help if we looked for it. Now expressing ourselves to stranger is hard, but it's harder to tell people in our life that we are depressed. So how can I express myself? Who would listen to me? Answer to this questions could change from person to person. You may have a trusted friend in your friend circle who would listen to you and understand your situation and guide you through this depression, but it's always better to seek professional help. It doesn't matter if there is not a single person with whom you are ready to share your depression I have an answer for you and its 'All India Toll Free

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Helpline 1800 4202020 for people in depression, stress, anxiety, drug abuse, PTSD, OCD. 10am - 5pm, Except Sat. Sun. Look at it as just a friendly call and see if you can find some help there. I have sensed that people look at depression as weakness and tend to hide it where depression is in reality just a disease a treatable one. We ignore it and hide it, but in turns situation grows from bad to worse and we all know that depression is the first step to slippery slope of suicide. Below table shows clearly that suicide rates are grown drastically in past year and this graph clearly show us how worse situation is becoming day by day. And at the heart of this problem lies a solution. This cycle of suicide begins with depression and if we took action instantly we can stop this depression from engulfing people we know, people about whom we care, and people we

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love. All we have to do is look for signs for depression in them and help them overcome their depression so we can save them from doing something drastic which in terms will harm them or leave a mark on rest of their and our lives too. By looking through data published by National Crime Records Bureau for Accidental deaths and suicides for year 2012 we can see that nearly 1, 35,445 people committed suicide and it's more likely to be grown in this past year 2013 and current year 2014 This figure clearly daunting to us, but we still can change this picture and stop more than 1, 30,000 peoples who are assumed to be committing suicide this year. We need to take initiative from our side and show everyone around us who we think is suffering through depression that Life is greatest gift we all can get and it's too foolish to throw away this wonderful gift for temporarily problems like failure in exams and unemployment which can be solved.

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