Once Upon A Time There Was Outrage

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The facts at first seemed confusing- many newspapers didn't even get the story that first morning after Jessica Lall was killed. It seemed easy at first to write it all off as a brawl within Delhi's party set that had led to the tragedy. For most,it seems bizarre that people would go to a 'pay-per-entry' party at a restaraunt called 'Once Upon a Time' where 'women celebrities' tend the bar to begin with. 'No wonder that politician's spoilt brats would show up there and, fire a couple of rounds when denied another scotch. Too bad someone got shot'. A fairytale from another world most of us don't travel to. But pretty soon, as facts were revealed, and the layers of pre-conceived notions peeled, there was an outburst of outrage. Delhi's citizens had only just recovered from shock a few months before. Three young men, one....

Darkness That Kills

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The details of model-TV actor Kuljeet Randhawa's death are everywhere. Her body found hanging from a ceiling fan, an apparent case of suicide. I've heard many TV channels talk of how lonely she must have been, the pressure that she writes about in her suicide note. While I have no personal knowledge of Randhawa's life- I do know this- that many if not a majority of those who commit suicide aren't alone, nor is it the pressure that kills them. There's a dark killer on the prowl, one that no one wants to talk about- depression. It seems like an imaginary state of mind, but in fact is linked to low levels of very real chemicals in the brain. Instead, since it has no physical symptoms it is thought of as a mental imbalance - and people suffering thought of as eccentric, unhinged or just plain crazy. ....