Suicides in India do not understand caste

New Delhi, October 27, 2006. - Ruined farmers, soldiers, under pressure, tired of living or nursing school marked by competitiveness are some of the faces of suicide in India, a growing problem that no one knows quite how to deal with.
The 1021 farmers have committed suicide in central India since July 2005 are just a sample of a phenomenon that has also become the region of Tamil Nadu in the south, in the place of the planet with the highest rate of teen suicide.
Indian newspapers do not normally have modesty in addressing this issue, taboo in other cultures, and often report suicides among adolescents in the pages of events giving full details.
In Tamil Nadu, for example, the suicide rate among young people is 103 per 100,000 inhabitants, nine times the world average and more than 50 percent of young female deaths are due to this cause.
There and in the neighboring state of Kerala produce half of the 100,000 annual deaths induced car registered in India, which have risen 60 percent in a decade.
Kerala, according to statistics, is the most cultured and literate of all India.
Efe said the sociologist Nandu Ram, "in Tamil Nadu and other southern regions there is a cult leader who leads people to kill themselves, as happened after the death of MG Ramachandran", an actor and prime minister of the region died in 1984 and drew over 100 people to suicide.
Meanwhile, students are prone to self-esteem crisis due to family problems, domestic violence, failed love or mental illness, also affected the Indian education system that is strongly committed to competitiveness in the face of job placement.
"Many children are unable to meet the demands of their parents or school and that it generates complex and makes them think that there is no other way out," said the sociologist.
In the case of farmers, suicide has become a response to a field without a future, especially in Vidarbha, where the debts generated by falling cotton prices and drought are the main reasons cited by local analysts .
Most are illiterate peasants in India, hence more difficult to achieve many bank loans that go to illegal moneylenders, even if it means the payment of interests that can reach 60 percent and are charged sometimes with methods coercive.
The Indian government passed a series of measures to improve the farmers, but suicide rates have increased as support, according to the version of the unions fail.
According to the spokesman for the Vidarbha Jan Andolan Samiti agricultural (VJAS) Kishor Tivari, suicides are common trace: occur between small indebted farmers who face family illness, a daughter of marriageable age and a son unemployed, plus a fall in prices or production.
Now, the organization provides VJAS "gandhigiris", a sort of strikes that follow the principles of "Gandhian" truth, tolerance, nonviolence and unity in order to achieve a "fair price" of about 45 per quintal of cotton.
Meanwhile, the Indian Army, less given to "gandhigiris" that the peasants, has announced the hiring of psychologists against the scourge of suicides among its ranks, estimated at about 500 since 2002 and mainly concentrated in the disputed region of Kashmir .
However, the controversy surrounding the suicide is the same: determine the value of life in a country that has 1,100 million people and has barely begun to develop.
And in India, something as individual as suicide has become a mass problem and knows no caste.

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