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V. Vijayasai Reddy

Indian students must be taught that doing is the new learning

Every year, news of suicides of students triggers breaking headlines in India, a billion plus nation where parents have always wanted their children to be the best and brightest. 

The parents do not want to compromise. And there lies the biggest problem. 

No one denies that the future of a child — arguably — is the biggest concern to a parent. But then, our educational institutes are always on the lookout for the top students, the race starts from the school where scholar badges create a strange divide in the classrooms. 

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