The issue of youth suicides
A recent report revealed that 120 Sri Lankans
attempt to commit suicide each day and of those 12 become
successful. In simple terms on an average we lose 4,000 people a
year due to death by suicide. However, attempts will amount to
50,000 or more a year. This data point should make us sit up and
think.
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The Human Dimension
What is important is not how long your father’s shadow is but
how long yours is…
As a journalist’s daughter, I literally grew up
with a love of writing. Wrote my first article at the age of five
for the Mihira newspaper for children. As far back as I can
remember, I was typing away, discovering the magic of my father’s
typewriter (we didn’t have computers back then) and also discovering
my love for writing.
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Neuromarketing and economic decisions
In any advertisement, there is a combination of
an image and a message which become cohesive, and several styles are
seen lifestyle, fantasy, moods, images, slice of life and different
types of evidence etc. For instance, in advertisements centred on
mobile telephones, images of young people in a stage of
communication can be seen. There is very large bill boards where
young women in an office setting are enjoying a certain brand of
tea. A growing kid is shown in a TV advertisement where a milk
powder is advertised. This child has become more intelligent because
the mother is feeding it with this brand of milk!
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