20 Indian students commit suicide after exam results

Fox News ^ | April 28, 2019 | David Aaro

[Feckless]

Annual tragedy in Korea, too.

[SecondAmendment]

So who do they call for tech support?

[Alberta's Child]

There was an article posted here a few years ago about the Mumbai passenger rail system. At the time, there were 10-12 passenger deaths on those trains PER DAY.

[TheZMan]

So now we get stories out of India where 0.005714% of a given population (the failing students) committed suicide.

Great. I see the next big failure has already started. They don’t have as far to fall.

[Kartographer]

https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/usaprime2_5525.jpg

[Gay State Conservative]

In a country of 1,200,000,000 people that's the equivalent of 20 people being killed by lightening.

[9YearLurker]

At MIT, too.

[angcat]

I would have been dead years ago if cared that much about my grades. :0)

[Governor Dinwiddie]

Well, look on the bright side. That's 20 fewer H-1B parasites stealing jobs from Americans.
 

[Alberta's Child]

More than 150 Americans die every day from drug overdoses. And we’re supposed to care about 20 suicides in India because ... ?

[ProtectOurFreedom]

In India, low performance is a badge of shame leading some kids to the ultimate form of sacrifice.

In America, in many locales and cultures, people are proud of low performance, ignorance, and not “acting white.” Suicide would never occur to them.

That is a stark contrast between our cultures.

[MayflowerMadam]

“More than 150 Americans die every day from drug overdoses.”

That would be 150 suicides. Like drinking alcohol, taking drugs is a choice.

[TheZMan]

0.00004285 % (of total)

[a fool in paradise]

blame the faulty software that graded 1/3 of a million students as “failures”, not the Indian programmers who wrote the software...

[proud American in Canada]

But still they are people. It’s a real shame. But I understand some cultures please such a priority on academic achievement that it “kills” them when they fail.

We don’t appear to have that problem in the US. LOL

[COBOL2Java]

So who do they call for tech support?

Kwik-E-Mart

Apu graduated first in his class of seven million at CALTECH (Calcutta Technical Institute)

[Rusty0604]

So sad.

[proud American in Canada]

Yes. Please see my post 16.

[QualityMan]

body count pales in comparison to a typical summer weekend on the south side of chicago.

,,,yawn.