Men Suicides: Death by injustice, not a misplaced sympathy?
By S R Ranjan : Should a Nation – having around 51% men with secured Justice, Equality, Liberty assured of dignity, fundamental rights by Constitution – deny justice as equality, equal law, gender-neutral legal process, rule of law, law enforcement safeguards to Men? Reportedly, a recent NCRB data show a change in the characteristic pattern of suicide deaths. According the data, across the country, a man commits suicide every 4.45 minutes while a woman every 9 minutes. It further shows that the rate of committing suicide among married men is three times that of married women? There’s now a nation-wide cry “why no laws for men” and #MenToo ! Suicide is neither an “individual case” nor a “personal choice”. When all the doors of life are closed, it is the only door left open to walk through, as the last resort, to discard a life of ‘hopelessness’, ‘helplessness’ and ‘injustice’. Everyone is born to live a life. It can never a be choice of a ‘living’ human being until and unle...
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