Dehradun, Feb. 8 -- (With exams just around the corner, some food for thought for pushy parents)
It was the weight that began dragging her down - slowly, irrevocably, into the abyss of deep, dark despair. She couldn't remember when it had creeped in on her, like a silent ghost, enveloping her in its tight embrace.
Looking back on hindsight, it was probably the day she got 98 percent in her Pre Board Math exam. She was never a brilliant student - but definitely an above average one, so when her marks came, her over ambitious parents couldn't contain their excitement. If she could get an almost perfect score in Math, what was stopping her from getting the same in the other subjects as well? After all weren't they all much easier?
So began ...