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In today's world being a teenager is not really easy. There are different challenges that we have to face, decisions to make and roads to take. The people and the environment around us greatly affect the way we think and act as teenagers. Being a teenager can be hard but at the same time, it is fun. We daily face new experiences. At this point in our lives, we feel like we are neither children anymore nor really grown-ups too. Teenage as we all know is one of the most important and memorable period of a person's life. This is the period during which we face and feel a lot of things ranging from our changing physical appearance, increasing body weight, parents constantly comparing us to our friends and relatives, peer pressure, anxiety, depression, suicidal thoughts and much more for the first time. 'Being an Indian Teenager' is an anthology containing stories, poems and articles from some established and some new writers. They have tried their best to portray every feeling and emotion that they have faced as Indian teenagers.
Examines teen life in India, including challenges, pastimes, and customs.
With the waves of Foreign Investments and opening of Indian Markets to Foreign entities foreign culture is also being absorbed by Indians along with foreign goods and services. The traditional ways of society and conservatism is taken over by Individuality and Materialism. This is an effort to describe such situations and their different outcomes. Of course none of them can be called Ideal situations or Ideal outcomes. it is just to take stock of the present dilemmas.
Aditya Arora is twenty-nine. Having come a long way in life, he stands proudly in his office space overlooking the city of New York, drawing a salary of $2,50,000 each month. He is all set to speak to the press as a national best-selling author and the winner of the Nation’s Best Author Award thrice in a row – and finds himself thinking deeply. How should he explain what he had been through? What circumstances went into making him the author he is? Aditya had faced several melodramas in India, something he shares with most teenagers of today. Would you relate to his story?
In Stoned, Shamed, Depressed, journalist Jyotsna Mohan Bhargava investigates the secret lives of India's urban teens and comes up with an eye-opening account -- of struggles with addiction to substances, social media and gaming, dealing with intense peer pressure, bullying and body shaming, and the resultant physical and mental health issues. This book chronicles the confused journey of Indian teens to adulthood -- along a road that is full of temptation, where boundaries are easily blurred, and where the lure of easy adventure, often in the virtual world, can unleash events that have repercussions for years to come. The narrative interweaves accounts of teens, parents, teachers and child psychologists to reveal a deeply disturbing picture of modern-day school life in urban India.
Series description. CUSTOMS AND CULTURES OF THE WORLD. What better guides to help students learn about the world than teens of the world? This unique series looks at 12 countries, one of which is the Navajo Nation inside the United States, through the eyes of both expert authors and real-life teens who live in those countries. The author provides background information on the history, culture, customs, politics, and economy of the country, while the teen describes for readers their points of view on teen life there. The teen authors not only inform about facts, but explore their own thoughts on ideas on the future of their nations. It s one-on-one learning and exploring.Each title in this se...