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Among the welter of sympathisers for a mentally sick female who committed suicide because of deep dpression you are one person who still maintain your sanity.
I give below the full report from the Statesman, which is not a rag like the Times of India. You can depend on this story. My analysis is she was depressed and took her life. Her parents had tried several alliances but none of them did result in her getting married. When several attempts failed to get her married they approached an astrologer who claimed that she would not get married because she was a manglik. And this is a crucial point. That idiot of an astrologer a charlatan at best put two and two together and arrived at a figure of three. For all I know he should be hanged for having abetted the crime of suicide of Sunita. That Sunita was mentally prepared for several rejections, and even if her other two sisters had got married she did not decide to end her life. I agree she had depression, but she did not take this extreme step.
Now what made her take this drastic step? Her father's penury ? Her unattractiveness as a bride? Or she had lost her virginity to some local lothario who had inveigled her to sleep with him and she became pregnant? We do not know. I do not see any report about a Post Mortem. But then the Calcutta Police is the most corrupt police force in India and for the sake of a few thousands of rupees they will write FIRs turning a murder into a suicide and vice-versa. From the highest to the lowest, Buddhadeva's Home Department is corrupt to the core.
Here is the report from the Statesman dated April 07, 2008.
KOLKATA, April 6: A 25-year-old girl, Sunita Jaiswal, a resident of Bhukailash Road in Ekbalpore committed suicide this afternoon after repeated refusals in matrimonial alliances as she was a Mangalik. Police say that Sunita's father, Mr Radheshyam Jaiswal, found his daughter's lifeless body hanging from the ceiling fan of her room in their Ekblapore residence around 3.00 p.m. She was immediately rushed to a local private nursing home where she was declared brought dead.
Meanwhile, DC (port) Mr Anand Kumar, said: “Police found a suicide note from her room which said that no one be held responsible for her death. She had also written that she was suffering from depression due to repeated refusals in her matrimonial alliances that were sought by her family.” Sunita's father, however, said that they had tried several times to get her married but had failed in finding a suitable match for her. After such repeated failures they consulted an astrologer who after going through her horoscope declared that she was a Mangalik, because of which she was not getting married. Following this Sunita started suffering from depression fearing that she will never get married. To make matters worse her two siblings had also been married off. This depressed her further leading her to commit suicide.
And this from the rag:Times of India.
Rejected repeatedly by suitors, a 25-year-old 'manglik' girl committed suicide at her Ekbalpore home on Sunday afternoon.
Sunita Jaiswal of Bhukailash Road was found hanging from the ceiling fan of her room. Police said her parents were desperately trying for quite some time to fix her marriage but all the prospective grooms they talked to rejected her because she was 'manglik'. A dejected Sunita killed herself, say police
Whether Manglik or non-Manglik, the stupid parents could not "buy" her a husband. And here in Sulekha we are castigating Astrology. How dumb can we be? We seem to forget that the Big B and his son Junior have accepted a star Manglik, the much used abused and misused Aishwarya Rai as their bahurani and Dharam? Patni for the Junior?
Regards.
Rajaputhran.
Thats right. It is the girls fault for being manglik. She did well to kill herself before she is used, abused and misused.
You mean this daruwala is a sham? a weirdo? God Almighty you saved me from further embarassment.
Thank you sara Boji. And oye Daru soch samjkar bath chedna varna muje maalum nahi kya hoga.
Rajaputhran.
Going by your logic, I should respect your belief that widows should be burned on their husbands' funeral pyres, that brides who don't get sufficient dowry should be burnt or that lower castes should be punished for entering temples. All these are "Hindu cultural practices" - that doesn't mean they are acceptable in a modern society.
That old can't-we-just-agree-to-disagree line doesn't work in such cases, sorry. Trying to wrap your superstition in religious colors only demeans Hinduism.
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this is just plain crazy. people just fail to make the distinction between astrology as a science and superstition. Superstition CANNOT be positive, anywhere, anyplace and to anybody. why would any parent want to put their daughter through this? my mom was the only non believer in a family full of believers largely because she always believed in the theory that hard work ALONE would take one places rather than pre determined predictions which in her opinion, put a damper on a person's abilities to go beyond his/her capabilities.
even in TA theories[transactional analysis, a branch of psychoanalysis], to an experienced therapist/psychologist, a person's [client, for example] personality, in its entirety, including the way he dies, could be predicted. now, that is something.