Disturbed 33-year-old hangs self
Pradeep Gupta, May 10, 2011, 12.33am IST
THANE: A 33-year-old man committed suicide on Sunday by hanging himself from the ceiling at his flat in Dombivli (E). The deceased, identified as Rohit Singh, was employed with a firm in Andheri.
According to the Ramnagar police, Rohit had not been answering calls from his family for the last one week. "Rohit's family members said he was mentally disturbed," said senior inspector Y A Matkar.
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Wednesday, May 11, 2011
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Husband booked for abetting wife's suicide
May 5, 2011, 06.08am IST
NAGPUR: Yashodhara Nagar police have booked a man for abetting his wife to commit suicide. The accused husband has been identified as Narendra Dhanraj Nimje (35), a resident of Vinoba Bhave Nagar.
Police said on April 28, Archana (30) had committed suicide by setting herself ablaze following mental and physical torture by her husband. She was admitted to Mayo hospital with serious burns and on May 2, Archana succumbed to her burns. On the basis of her statement, the police have booked Narendra.
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47% of young Indian women marry before age 18
47% of young Indian women marry before 18
Anahita Mukherji, May 10, 2011, 03.18am IST
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MUMBAI: That India marries off its daughters in such a hurry that they have little time to grow out of their teens is a fact that no longer raises eyebrows. But what should come as a shock to a country that preens itself over its growing economic prowess is that we fare worse than sub-Saharan Africa, or for that matter, all of Africa put together, when it comes to child marriage.
If that's not bad enough, sample this. The degree to which child marriage is practised in India is more than double the figure for Pakistan, a country we don't quite look up to as a role model. While India would like to believe that it will one day break into the league of countries such as the US and UK, we can take solace from the fact that a worldwide scorecard on child marriage shows that we're better off than Bangladesh, Mali and Burkina Faso. The US and UK dont even figure on the list.
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A 2011 data sheet called `The World's Women and Girls', released by the Washington-based Population Reference Bureau, shows that 47% of women in India between the ages of 20 and 24 were married by 18. This is higher than the average for South Central Asia (45%), of which India is a part. The average for Africa as a continent works out to 34%. Most African countries fare better than India, including Ghana, Sudan and Nigeria. While Pakistan's score works out to 24%, even Afghanistan, with a pathetic score of 43%, does a better job than India when it comes to curbing child marriage.
Vibhuti Patel, director, post graduate studies and research (PGSR) and head of the PG economics department at SNDT University, who was an early advocate of India's feminist movement, points to the rather strange link between child marriage and the success of some of India's welfare schemes such as the Integrated Child Development Scheme (ICDS) and Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA).
SSA helps schoolgirls till Class IV, after which there are a large number of dropouts and ICDS children in the age group of 0-6. As a result adolescent girls, who mostly drop out after Class VII as they can't cope up with math, science and English, don't have to look after their younger siblings. ``In the absence of any programmes targeting adolescent girls in terms of vocational training or life-skill development by the state or by civil society groups, many parents are worried that these girls, who are now free of responsibility and have a lot of time on their hands, may end up in premarital relationships and turn unwed mothers,'' she said.
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‘Schizophrenic’ computer to help understand our brain
May 9, 2011, 07.40am IST
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University of Texas
WASHINGTON: In a unique experiment, scientists in the US claim to have afflicted computers with virtual schizophrenia to better understand the human brain with the condition. A team from University of Texas and Yale University has used a virtual computer model or "neural network" to simulate the excessive release of dopamine in the brain.
The findings, published in the 'Biological Psychiatry' journal, revealed that the network recalled memories in a distinctly schizophrenic-like fashion . "The hypothesis is that dopamine encodes the importance the salience of experience. When there's too much dopamine, it leads to exaggerated salience, and the brain ends up learning from things that it shouldn't be learning from," said team member Uli Grasemann.
The results bolster a hypothesis known in schizophrenia circles as the hyperlearning hypothesis, which posits that people suffering from schizophrenia have brains that lose the ability to forget or ignore as much as they normally would.
Without forgetting, they lose the ability to extract what's meaningful out of the immensity of stimuli the brain encounters. They start making connections that aren't real, or drowning in a sea of so many connections they lose the ability to stitch together any kind of coherent story.
The neural network used by Grasemann and his adviser, Professor Risto Miikkulainen, is called DISCERN . Designed by Miikkulainen, DISCERN is able to learn natural language . In this research, it was used to simulate what happens to language as result of eight different types of neurological dysfunction. The results of the simulations were compared by Ralph Hoffman, professor of psychiatry at the Yale School of Medicine, to what he saw when studying human schizophrenics.
"With neural networks, you basically train them by showing them examples, over and over and over again. Every time you show it an example, you say, if this is the input, then this should be your output, and if this is the input, then that should be your output. "You do it again and again thousands of times, and every time it adjusts a little bit more towards doing what you want. In the end, if you do it enough, the network has learned," Grasemann said.
In order to model hyperlearning, Grasemann and Miikkulainen ran the system through its paces again, but with one key parameter altered. They simulated an excessive release of dopamine by increasing the system's learning rate-essentially telling it to stop forgetting so much.
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All humans are born liars
All humans are born liars, & we are not fibbing
May 9, 2011, 07.41am IST
LONDON: If your child lies at three, be delighted, if they lie at seven, be very afraid but please don't fret about telling fibs — it's what that makes us human, says a new book. According to the book, 'Born Liars', penned by Ian Leslie, people are "all born liars" . Between the ages of two and four, children's lies are usually told to avoid punishment. Very young children tend not to be good at lying. Then, at around the age of four something changes, it says.
The book claims that somewhere between the ages of three-and-a-half and four and-a-half, children learn how to lie with much greater skill and enthusiasm. According to the book, lying is hard and children who lie well must be able to recognize the truth, conceive of an alternative, false but coherent story and juggle those two versions in their mind, while selling the alternative reality to someone else — all the time bearing in mind what the other person is likely to be thinking and feeling.
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It is wondrous that a child of four should be able to do this — if you catch your three-year-old in a well-told lie, be impressed — but don't congratulate them, it says.
However, the number of lies told by children tends to spike among those aged four as they exercise their amazing new powers, but it usually declines during their first school years, as the child receives social feedback.
Kids learn that the benefits of lying come at a hefty price. They find that if they lie too much, teachers and friends lose faith in their credibility and they become unpopular, says the author.
The majority of children learn not to lie instinctively, but a few remain impervious to it. Persistent lying in older children is usually the sign of a deeper malaise, according to the book. If a child is lying habitually after the age of seven, they may continue to do so for years to come, even into adulthood.
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May 5, 2011, 06.08am IST
NAGPUR: Yashodhara Nagar police have booked a man for abetting his wife to commit suicide. The accused husband has been identified as Narendra Dhanraj Nimje (35), a resident of Vinoba Bhave Nagar.
Police said on April 28, Archana (30) had committed suicide by setting herself ablaze following mental and physical torture by her husband. She was admitted to Mayo hospital with serious burns and on May 2, Archana succumbed to her burns. On the basis of her statement, the police have booked Narendra.
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May 5th 2011
80 year old man from chennai commits suicide in Kerala bhavan, vashi, navi mumbai.
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47% of young Indian women marry before age 18
47% of young Indian women marry before 18
Anahita Mukherji, May 10, 2011, 03.18am IST
Tags:
Population Reference Bureau
MUMBAI: That India marries off its daughters in such a hurry that they have little time to grow out of their teens is a fact that no longer raises eyebrows. But what should come as a shock to a country that preens itself over its growing economic prowess is that we fare worse than sub-Saharan Africa, or for that matter, all of Africa put together, when it comes to child marriage.
If that's not bad enough, sample this. The degree to which child marriage is practised in India is more than double the figure for Pakistan, a country we don't quite look up to as a role model. While India would like to believe that it will one day break into the league of countries such as the US and UK, we can take solace from the fact that a worldwide scorecard on child marriage shows that we're better off than Bangladesh, Mali and Burkina Faso. The US and UK dont even figure on the list.
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A 2011 data sheet called `The World's Women and Girls', released by the Washington-based Population Reference Bureau, shows that 47% of women in India between the ages of 20 and 24 were married by 18. This is higher than the average for South Central Asia (45%), of which India is a part. The average for Africa as a continent works out to 34%. Most African countries fare better than India, including Ghana, Sudan and Nigeria. While Pakistan's score works out to 24%, even Afghanistan, with a pathetic score of 43%, does a better job than India when it comes to curbing child marriage.
Vibhuti Patel, director, post graduate studies and research (PGSR) and head of the PG economics department at SNDT University, who was an early advocate of India's feminist movement, points to the rather strange link between child marriage and the success of some of India's welfare schemes such as the Integrated Child Development Scheme (ICDS) and Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA).
SSA helps schoolgirls till Class IV, after which there are a large number of dropouts and ICDS children in the age group of 0-6. As a result adolescent girls, who mostly drop out after Class VII as they can't cope up with math, science and English, don't have to look after their younger siblings. ``In the absence of any programmes targeting adolescent girls in terms of vocational training or life-skill development by the state or by civil society groups, many parents are worried that these girls, who are now free of responsibility and have a lot of time on their hands, may end up in premarital relationships and turn unwed mothers,'' she said.
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‘Schizophrenic’ computer to help understand our brain
May 9, 2011, 07.40am IST
Tags:
Yale University|
University of Texas
WASHINGTON: In a unique experiment, scientists in the US claim to have afflicted computers with virtual schizophrenia to better understand the human brain with the condition. A team from University of Texas and Yale University has used a virtual computer model or "neural network" to simulate the excessive release of dopamine in the brain.
The findings, published in the 'Biological Psychiatry' journal, revealed that the network recalled memories in a distinctly schizophrenic-like fashion . "The hypothesis is that dopamine encodes the importance the salience of experience. When there's too much dopamine, it leads to exaggerated salience, and the brain ends up learning from things that it shouldn't be learning from," said team member Uli Grasemann.
The results bolster a hypothesis known in schizophrenia circles as the hyperlearning hypothesis, which posits that people suffering from schizophrenia have brains that lose the ability to forget or ignore as much as they normally would.
Without forgetting, they lose the ability to extract what's meaningful out of the immensity of stimuli the brain encounters. They start making connections that aren't real, or drowning in a sea of so many connections they lose the ability to stitch together any kind of coherent story.
The neural network used by Grasemann and his adviser, Professor Risto Miikkulainen, is called DISCERN . Designed by Miikkulainen, DISCERN is able to learn natural language . In this research, it was used to simulate what happens to language as result of eight different types of neurological dysfunction. The results of the simulations were compared by Ralph Hoffman, professor of psychiatry at the Yale School of Medicine, to what he saw when studying human schizophrenics.
"With neural networks, you basically train them by showing them examples, over and over and over again. Every time you show it an example, you say, if this is the input, then this should be your output, and if this is the input, then that should be your output. "You do it again and again thousands of times, and every time it adjusts a little bit more towards doing what you want. In the end, if you do it enough, the network has learned," Grasemann said.
In order to model hyperlearning, Grasemann and Miikkulainen ran the system through its paces again, but with one key parameter altered. They simulated an excessive release of dopamine by increasing the system's learning rate-essentially telling it to stop forgetting so much.
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All humans are born liars
All humans are born liars, & we are not fibbing
May 9, 2011, 07.41am IST
LONDON: If your child lies at three, be delighted, if they lie at seven, be very afraid but please don't fret about telling fibs — it's what that makes us human, says a new book. According to the book, 'Born Liars', penned by Ian Leslie, people are "all born liars" . Between the ages of two and four, children's lies are usually told to avoid punishment. Very young children tend not to be good at lying. Then, at around the age of four something changes, it says.
The book claims that somewhere between the ages of three-and-a-half and four and-a-half, children learn how to lie with much greater skill and enthusiasm. According to the book, lying is hard and children who lie well must be able to recognize the truth, conceive of an alternative, false but coherent story and juggle those two versions in their mind, while selling the alternative reality to someone else — all the time bearing in mind what the other person is likely to be thinking and feeling.
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It is wondrous that a child of four should be able to do this — if you catch your three-year-old in a well-told lie, be impressed — but don't congratulate them, it says.
However, the number of lies told by children tends to spike among those aged four as they exercise their amazing new powers, but it usually declines during their first school years, as the child receives social feedback.
Kids learn that the benefits of lying come at a hefty price. They find that if they lie too much, teachers and friends lose faith in their credibility and they become unpopular, says the author.
The majority of children learn not to lie instinctively, but a few remain impervious to it. Persistent lying in older children is usually the sign of a deeper malaise, according to the book. If a child is lying habitually after the age of seven, they may continue to do so for years to come, even into adulthood.
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Husband's illicit affair amounts to cruelty
Husband's illicit affair amounts to cruelty
Urvi Mahajani, Hindustan Times
Mumbai, May 11, 2011
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If a man is involved in an illicit relationship, it amounts to cruelty to his wife, the Bombay high court said last week, while upholding a six-month sentence given in 1997 by a sessions court judge. Justice AR Joshi said the husband had committed an offence under section 498A (husband or husband's
relative subjecting woman to cruelty) of the Indian Penal Code by having an affair, which was known to his wife.
The court was hearing an appeal filed by Nashik resident Ratan Jagzap, who had challenged the six-month sentence imposed on him after his wife, Chandrakala, committed suicide on learning about the affair.
Jagzap has been out on bail since 1995. More than 15 years after his wife committed suicide, he will now spend six months in jail.
In November 1995, Chandrakala killed herself by consuming pesticide. A few days before the incident, she had complained to her parents that Jagzap was ill-treating her. The police had then booked him for cruelty and abetment to suicide.
During trial, the prosecution had said that Jagzap got involved with his business partner's wife, and the duo left their homes and started living together in Dhule along with their sons from their respective marriages.
Chandrakala had gone to Dhule to convince Jagzap to return but in vain.
Though the sessions court convicted Jagzap for subjecting Chandrakala to cruelty, it acquitted him from charges of abetment to suicide, considering the "material deficient of bringing home the charge".
An aggrieved Jagzap had filed an appeal in the high court.
Justice Joshi upheld the conviction for cruelty.
However, as neither the government nor the victim's parents had challenged Jagzap's acquittal for abetment to suicide, the high court did not interfere with it.
"The trial court did not consider the mental cruelty as sufficient for Chandrakala to end her life. It said Chandrakala became over-sentimental and out of desperation she took the extreme step," the high court observed.
Urvi Mahajani, Hindustan Times
Mumbai, May 11, 2011
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If a man is involved in an illicit relationship, it amounts to cruelty to his wife, the Bombay high court said last week, while upholding a six-month sentence given in 1997 by a sessions court judge. Justice AR Joshi said the husband had committed an offence under section 498A (husband or husband's
relative subjecting woman to cruelty) of the Indian Penal Code by having an affair, which was known to his wife.
The court was hearing an appeal filed by Nashik resident Ratan Jagzap, who had challenged the six-month sentence imposed on him after his wife, Chandrakala, committed suicide on learning about the affair.
Jagzap has been out on bail since 1995. More than 15 years after his wife committed suicide, he will now spend six months in jail.
In November 1995, Chandrakala killed herself by consuming pesticide. A few days before the incident, she had complained to her parents that Jagzap was ill-treating her. The police had then booked him for cruelty and abetment to suicide.
During trial, the prosecution had said that Jagzap got involved with his business partner's wife, and the duo left their homes and started living together in Dhule along with their sons from their respective marriages.
Chandrakala had gone to Dhule to convince Jagzap to return but in vain.
Though the sessions court convicted Jagzap for subjecting Chandrakala to cruelty, it acquitted him from charges of abetment to suicide, considering the "material deficient of bringing home the charge".
An aggrieved Jagzap had filed an appeal in the high court.
Justice Joshi upheld the conviction for cruelty.
However, as neither the government nor the victim's parents had challenged Jagzap's acquittal for abetment to suicide, the high court did not interfere with it.
"The trial court did not consider the mental cruelty as sufficient for Chandrakala to end her life. It said Chandrakala became over-sentimental and out of desperation she took the extreme step," the high court observed.
Borivili woman jumps to death
Borivli woman jumps to death, in-laws, husband held
HT Correspondent, Hindustan Times
Mumbai, May 11, 2011
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The Borivli police on Tuesday arrested a Belgium- based diamond merchant and his parents for allegedly abetting the suicide of his 26-year-old wife by harassing her for dowry. The deceased Bhakti Shah, 26, had returned from Belgium with her husband Tejas seven months back. She allegedly committed
suicide on Tuesday afternoon by jumping off the fourth floor of the building she was residing in with her husband and in-laws. After recording the statement of Bhakti's family members, the Borivli police registered a case of abetment to suicide and dowry harassment in addition to relevant sections of the Dowry Act.
The incident took place around 9.20am on Tuesday in Mangalkunj building at Borivli. After the watchman heard a loud thud, he rushed to the spot and found Bhakti lying in a pool of blood. He informed her in-laws and rushed her to Patel nursing home located on the ground floor of the same building, said the police.
After Bhakti's condition did not improve, she was taken to Kokilaben Ambani hospital in Andheri, where she died while under treatment for multiple fractures and internal bleeding.
Tejas Shah and his parents Vasantbhai Shah and Sulsha Shah were arrested for abetting Bhakti's suicide by harassing her for dowry, said Ramrao Pawar, additional commissioner of police (North Region).
Bhakti, who was married to Tejas for three years, delivered a baby boy five months back. Bhakti's father is also a diamond merchant and resides at Vile Parle with his family.
Bhakti reportedly had an argument with Tejas early Tuesday morning. The victim's parents told the police their daughter was under stress since the past few months due to harassment for dowry.
HT Correspondent, Hindustan Times
Mumbai, May 11, 2011
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The Borivli police on Tuesday arrested a Belgium- based diamond merchant and his parents for allegedly abetting the suicide of his 26-year-old wife by harassing her for dowry. The deceased Bhakti Shah, 26, had returned from Belgium with her husband Tejas seven months back. She allegedly committed
suicide on Tuesday afternoon by jumping off the fourth floor of the building she was residing in with her husband and in-laws. After recording the statement of Bhakti's family members, the Borivli police registered a case of abetment to suicide and dowry harassment in addition to relevant sections of the Dowry Act.
The incident took place around 9.20am on Tuesday in Mangalkunj building at Borivli. After the watchman heard a loud thud, he rushed to the spot and found Bhakti lying in a pool of blood. He informed her in-laws and rushed her to Patel nursing home located on the ground floor of the same building, said the police.
After Bhakti's condition did not improve, she was taken to Kokilaben Ambani hospital in Andheri, where she died while under treatment for multiple fractures and internal bleeding.
Tejas Shah and his parents Vasantbhai Shah and Sulsha Shah were arrested for abetting Bhakti's suicide by harassing her for dowry, said Ramrao Pawar, additional commissioner of police (North Region).
Bhakti, who was married to Tejas for three years, delivered a baby boy five months back. Bhakti's father is also a diamond merchant and resides at Vile Parle with his family.
Bhakti reportedly had an argument with Tejas early Tuesday morning. The victim's parents told the police their daughter was under stress since the past few months due to harassment for dowry.
Monday, May 9, 2011
Dr Jaspreet Singh, the death of merit, documentary on dalit suiicde
The documentary 'Dr Jaspreet Singh: The Death of Merit' is second in the series of our efforts to document caste-based discrimination prevalent in Indian higher education system resulting in large number of suicides of Dalit students in Indian campuses.
It is based on the testimonies of parents and family members of Dr Jaspreet Singh, 22 years, who was a student of Final Year, MBBS at Government Medical College, Chandigarh.
Harrased due to his caste by one of the professors, Dr Jaspreet Singh committed suicide on 27th January, 2008, by hanging himself on the 5th floor of his college’s library.
* Please watch the documentary 'Dr Jaspreet Singh:The Death of Merit' at YouTube at below link.
http://youtu.be/Rd9lcsy9Ty8 or can watch it at our blog www.thedeathofmeritinindia.wordpress.com
About the documentary
Dr Jaspreet Singh (1987-2008) was a school topper and quite bright Dalit student, from a very humble background. He used to clear all his papers without fail, in 4 years of his MBBS, till he met a professor whose criteria of merit was not Jaspreet’s performance but his ‘caste’.
Do whatever you can do, I will make you to do your MBBS all over again‘ was the taunt Prof N.K. Goel, Head of Department, Community Medcine, Government Medical College, Chandigarh used to make to a final year student who, in his 4 years of MBBS, had cleared each and every paper without fail.
Tensed and much humiliated Jaspreet informed many other faculty members and friends about the casteist behaviour of Prof Goel and his fear of being failed once again but to no avail. He was once again failed in the same paper by just one mark. Finally he committed suicide in the college’s library leaving behind a suicide note mentioning the name of the professor and his casteist behaviour.
Only after the intervention of National Scheduled Caste Commission, police filed the case under SC/ST Act and the answer sheet of Dr Jaspreet Singh were sent to a panel of 3 external examiners for re-evalutaion.
And Dr Jaspreet passed the exam, but after his death. Three years after, his parents and two sisters are still fighting the case and waiting for justice, not only for their son, but like Dr Balmukund Bharti’s parents, for all other Dalit students so that they do not suffer the fate of Jaspreet.
* Please watch our first documentary 'The Death of Merit' (in 2 parts) released on April 23, 2011 at YouTube at below link. It is on the suicide of Dr Balmukund Bharti from AIIMS, New Delhi.
Part I - http://youtu.be/2L3y9O1HCBw
Part II - http://youtu.be/ADXnFf_5JT4
* For the list of Dalit students committing suicide in last four years in India’s premier educational institutions, please click here.
* To read the report Caste Discrimination in IIT Delhi, please click here.
* To read the article ‘On Suicide, Caste and Higher Education, please click here
It is based on the testimonies of parents and family members of Dr Jaspreet Singh, 22 years, who was a student of Final Year, MBBS at Government Medical College, Chandigarh.
Harrased due to his caste by one of the professors, Dr Jaspreet Singh committed suicide on 27th January, 2008, by hanging himself on the 5th floor of his college’s library.
* Please watch the documentary 'Dr Jaspreet Singh:The Death of Merit' at YouTube at below link.
http://youtu.be/Rd9lcsy9Ty8 or can watch it at our blog www.thedeathofmeritinindia.wordpress.com
About the documentary
Dr Jaspreet Singh (1987-2008) was a school topper and quite bright Dalit student, from a very humble background. He used to clear all his papers without fail, in 4 years of his MBBS, till he met a professor whose criteria of merit was not Jaspreet’s performance but his ‘caste’.
Do whatever you can do, I will make you to do your MBBS all over again‘ was the taunt Prof N.K. Goel, Head of Department, Community Medcine, Government Medical College, Chandigarh used to make to a final year student who, in his 4 years of MBBS, had cleared each and every paper without fail.
Tensed and much humiliated Jaspreet informed many other faculty members and friends about the casteist behaviour of Prof Goel and his fear of being failed once again but to no avail. He was once again failed in the same paper by just one mark. Finally he committed suicide in the college’s library leaving behind a suicide note mentioning the name of the professor and his casteist behaviour.
Only after the intervention of National Scheduled Caste Commission, police filed the case under SC/ST Act and the answer sheet of Dr Jaspreet Singh were sent to a panel of 3 external examiners for re-evalutaion.
And Dr Jaspreet passed the exam, but after his death. Three years after, his parents and two sisters are still fighting the case and waiting for justice, not only for their son, but like Dr Balmukund Bharti’s parents, for all other Dalit students so that they do not suffer the fate of Jaspreet.
* Please watch our first documentary 'The Death of Merit' (in 2 parts) released on April 23, 2011 at YouTube at below link. It is on the suicide of Dr Balmukund Bharti from AIIMS, New Delhi.
Part I - http://youtu.be/2L3y9O1HCBw
Part II - http://youtu.be/ADXnFf_5JT4
* For the list of Dalit students committing suicide in last four years in India’s premier educational institutions, please click here.
* To read the report Caste Discrimination in IIT Delhi, please click here.
* To read the article ‘On Suicide, Caste and Higher Education, please click here
Friday, May 6, 2011
Scientist Suicide
Mumbai, April 29: A 63-year-old woman scientist working with Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC) allegedly committed suicide in Mumbai, claimed reports on Friday.
Although there is yet to be any official confirmation, reports identified the deceased as Dr Uma Nariya Rao.
Although it is said that she was suffering from poor health, what prompted her to take such an extreme step is yet to be ascertained.
The police have recovered a suicide note left by the deceased and are investigating the case.
This is second such instance in two months. A 27-year-old woman scientist working with BARC had allegedly committed suicide at its quarters in high-security Anushakti Nagar in eastern suburbs in March.
Tital Pal, hailing from Kolkata, was found hanging with dupatta to a window rod at her 14th floor house in Nilgiri apartments.
Tital Pal committed suicide ten days after the alleged murder of another scientist Mahadevan Iyer, a mechanical engineer working in the BARC's Reactor Group. His body was found in his first floor apartment in the BARC quarters in south Mumbai on February 22, sending shock waves in the institution.
Although there is yet to be any official confirmation, reports identified the deceased as Dr Uma Nariya Rao.
Although it is said that she was suffering from poor health, what prompted her to take such an extreme step is yet to be ascertained.
The police have recovered a suicide note left by the deceased and are investigating the case.
This is second such instance in two months. A 27-year-old woman scientist working with BARC had allegedly committed suicide at its quarters in high-security Anushakti Nagar in eastern suburbs in March.
Tital Pal, hailing from Kolkata, was found hanging with dupatta to a window rod at her 14th floor house in Nilgiri apartments.
Tital Pal committed suicide ten days after the alleged murder of another scientist Mahadevan Iyer, a mechanical engineer working in the BARC's Reactor Group. His body was found in his first floor apartment in the BARC quarters in south Mumbai on February 22, sending shock waves in the institution.
Former BARC scientist ends life, TOI
Former BARC scientist ends life in Govandi
V Narayan, Apr 30, 2011, 12.25am IST
MUMBAI: A retired lady scientist of the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC) committed suicide by popping an overdose of tablets prescribed for bi-polar disorder. The domestic help found the body of Dr Uma Narsimha Rao (63) in the 10th floor flat at Runwal Centre Building in Govandi on Friday around 8 am.
Rao resided in the flat alone. "She might have consumed excess tablets the previous night. We registered a case of accidental death report (ADR). Meanwhile the investigators are awaiting the post-mortem report," said assistant commissioner of police (Trombay division) Jalinder Khandagale. She made powder of two different tablets and consumed it, the police said.
Police said Rao`s domestic help Maitri Sushila entered the house with help of spare key. "Sushila found her unconscious and then informed Rao`s younger son Anuragh, 34, who stays in a building nearby. He called the doctor who declared her dead. Later Anuragh called us," a police officer said.
Police found a suicide note in her flat. The note said, "I am taking the extreme step due to bi-polar disorder (depression) and headache for long. Now it has become incurable. I cannot live life like this. No one should be held responsible." The note ended with Rao`s signature.
Anuragh, an artist and an event management professional told the police that his mother was undergoing treatment at the BARC hospital. Anuragh, in the statement, said, "My mother stayed alone in the flat ever since my father Dr Narsimha Rao died 10 years ago of heart attack. He too was a BARC scientist." Anuragh stays with his family in Govandi while his elder brother Debashish and family is US citizen. They will reach Mumbai soon.
Rao`s domestic help Sushila said the previous day the deceased handed over the flat keys to her and said that she will go for medical checkup on Friday. "I was asked to use the keys to enter the house. Around 8am I entered the house and found my employer unconscious. Immediately I called her son who called the doctor," she said.
A Trombay police officer said that Rao was suffering from bi-polar disorder for the last twenty years, her son said. She was also an active social worker and was the president of Indian Women Scientist Association (IWSA). Rao had worked in the Food Technology and Cell Biology division of BARC.
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V Narayan, Apr 30, 2011, 12.25am IST
MUMBAI: A retired lady scientist of the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC) committed suicide by popping an overdose of tablets prescribed for bi-polar disorder. The domestic help found the body of Dr Uma Narsimha Rao (63) in the 10th floor flat at Runwal Centre Building in Govandi on Friday around 8 am.
Rao resided in the flat alone. "She might have consumed excess tablets the previous night. We registered a case of accidental death report (ADR). Meanwhile the investigators are awaiting the post-mortem report," said assistant commissioner of police (Trombay division) Jalinder Khandagale. She made powder of two different tablets and consumed it, the police said.
Police said Rao`s domestic help Maitri Sushila entered the house with help of spare key. "Sushila found her unconscious and then informed Rao`s younger son Anuragh, 34, who stays in a building nearby. He called the doctor who declared her dead. Later Anuragh called us," a police officer said.
Police found a suicide note in her flat. The note said, "I am taking the extreme step due to bi-polar disorder (depression) and headache for long. Now it has become incurable. I cannot live life like this. No one should be held responsible." The note ended with Rao`s signature.
Anuragh, an artist and an event management professional told the police that his mother was undergoing treatment at the BARC hospital. Anuragh, in the statement, said, "My mother stayed alone in the flat ever since my father Dr Narsimha Rao died 10 years ago of heart attack. He too was a BARC scientist." Anuragh stays with his family in Govandi while his elder brother Debashish and family is US citizen. They will reach Mumbai soon.
Rao`s domestic help Sushila said the previous day the deceased handed over the flat keys to her and said that she will go for medical checkup on Friday. "I was asked to use the keys to enter the house. Around 8am I entered the house and found my employer unconscious. Immediately I called her son who called the doctor," she said.
A Trombay police officer said that Rao was suffering from bi-polar disorder for the last twenty years, her son said. She was also an active social worker and was the president of Indian Women Scientist Association (IWSA). Rao had worked in the Food Technology and Cell Biology division of BARC.
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