suicide prevention

  1. Addressing India’s Rising Suicide Crisis: Societal, Mental Health, and Economic Perspectives

    A tragic event in Chennai’s Anna Nagar West recently highlighted a confluence of pressures faced by modern Indian families. On a quiet Thursday morning, the devastating discovery of Dr. Balamurugan, his wife Sumathi, and their two sons, Dasvanth and Lingesh, left a community reeling and renewed...
  2. Tragic Family Loss in Chennai Highlights Financial Strain and Mental Health Crisis

    An uprooting tragedy has cast a long shadow over Anna Nagar West in Chennai, where early Thursday morning unearthed a heartrending scene. In a modest family home, the bodies of Dr. Balamurugan, his wife Sumathi, and their two sons—Dasvanth (17) and Lingesh (15)—were discovered. The case...
  3. VIDEO When people just vanish

    I'm in a rather blue mood right now, this may be depressive, or sound sour. Why write this? Teaching? We do need to interfere. To involve when something gets messed up. Unless we do it, people just simply go up in smoke, us wondering, What happened? Lost my neighbor at her 79 of age, she was a...
  4. Foxconn's clever idea to stop suicide jumps

    One and a half million square metres of net. One detail we somehow missed from our story yesterday about how Foxconn is prepared to increase wages at its factories by 20 per cent, in a bid to address the high rate of suicide attempts among its workers was a stunning statement by factory boss...