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A 25 year old girl, from my neighborhood committed suicide last week. It was very painful for me to believe it since I had a daily interaction with that family. How can one become so hard and end the life? Many people in the world today end their lives without knowing the meaning of life. Everyday looking at news papers, we come across at least two to three instances of suicides. (more…)

It was sad to read the story of Chitra Parmar in the morning today. Depressed over a failed love affair, this 20-year-old student of National Institute of Fashion Design, committed suicide by hanging herself from the ceiling fan on Sunday evening. In the suicide note she said she was taking the step because she could not get over the fact she had been jilted by her lover Hiren Patel. She also named three more people as responsible for their break-up. Finally she apologised to her parents in the suicide note. (more…)

Dear Sarita,

I am writing this letter which I am sure has come as a surprise to you. But it definitely would have brought back memories of our college days when we would exchange letters, I wish I had some of them with me today to read. But those carefree days when we would hold our hands and walk through the park, those tasty kulfis which we would relish and long nights where I would keep reading those letters and keep dreaming well in to the night.

Another reason I am writing is that I could not bear to listen to your voice on the phone, it is too painful for me, I still remember when you would keep calling just to persuade me to give our marriage another chance, but I believe I was blinded by the beauty of my colleague then to reconsider my decision to go through a divorce. But I guess it is now too late to think on those issues. (more…)

“India tops the world in suicides among teenagers. Exam stress and depression are key reasons but other urban pressures are taking a heavy toll” says the cover note article of India Today magazine.

Here’s the sketchy view of the article:

• 16 suicides a day or 6000 a year is the rate at which teenagers snuff out their lives in India.
• 2006-07, 5875 students took their own life. ( NCRB)
• Every 90 minutes a teenage tries to commit suicide.
• But every 6 hours, one succeeds.
• 56% teen suicides in the country are reported between March and July, every year
• More adolescents die of suicide than AIDS, cancer, heart disease, obesity, birth defects and lung disease.   (more…)

Three students of Class XII committed suicides in three days of the exams having started. In less than three months of 2008, 15 students of Class X and Class XII committed suicide across the state. A mother, troubled by her unfaithful husband, jumped into a lake with her three children in the wee hours of one morning. All three died. Another 32 old mother of two had a quarrel with her husband went on to hang herself to death. A son of a police official committed suicide under mysterious circumstances. Another woman who came to her father’s house, consumed poison and succumbed at the hospital. Another woman immolated herself due to constant bickering by her in-laws over a property dispute. Another young girl hung herself from the ceiling fan under mysterious curcumstances. She had only married a few months back. A five member family committed suicide by consuming poison due to financial crisis. (more…)