It is said that the opposite of love is not hate, it is indifference.  My heart went out to the family of the young teenager who committed suicide , a life taken away too soon. I saw the video in which she shares her pain and opens up about how cyber bullying and isolation in school had led her to attempt suicide twice earlier. This video was posted on youtube 5 weeks before she died.

What is appalling that all the newspapers and media today are carrying reports about how she was bullied  and how this could have been prevented. Why wasn't there any support for her either from the media or her peers when she had narrated her story 5 weeks earlier? All she wanted was some support, someone to share her pain with, to be accepted.

Teenagers are confused, overloaded with whacky hormones. Girls looking for validation of their beauty, insecure in their worth are


In today's world, it is so easy for cowards to bully someone annoynmously, to espew hate and venom while being totally invisible. Social media can spread news and rumours like wildfire,and all it takes is just a spark of hatred mixed with ignorance and apathy to destroy reputation and in some instances life.

Social media with its "likes" and comments, makes it impossible for a kid with low self-esteem to be indifferent towards the way the world sees him/her. So how do we teach our kids to deal with insolent comments by strangers or "friends"?

Teach the kids - whether they use social media or not , that civillity




I am still astounded about how helpless we feel when a young life goes to waste and nothing is done to save it. Even as adults, we find it