Yes I can, trying to cope with the ever-rising living standards in the city, too much work pressure, specially in the IT sector, absence of any cultural stimulant like the ”para club culture” that thrives in cities like Kolkata...I can cite so many. Though, being a resident of Bangalore, I love this city, yet sometimes I really miss my over-inquisitive next door ’kakima’ of Kolkata, who would make it a point to know about my day to day life! That inherent warmth is somehow missing.

@Reshmi agree with you! No matter, how much I value my individual space; I still miss the inquisitiveness of a friendly neighbor next door, which is so much a part of Kolkata.

:(

hey if loneliness were the cause to take away ones life then imagine the state of ADAM!

He was all alone on this earth before Eve arrived!

But they chose to initiate life rather than end it there!

I know I might not be helping enough, but come to think of it, we should all take things in a stride, as it comes. Why pay with our lives being unable to bear momentary circumstances.

I know a lot of my friends at college who are from different parts of India, including Bangalore. Even they are alone here, having a hard time, all in lieu of a good education in a good college!

See its the outlook which matters! Today if someone thinks that ones life is not worth then that person might end up losing all, even in a crowd.

Eventually, ITS THE OUTLOK THAT MATTERS.

However it is really depressing to know about the escalating number of suicides!
Really depressing.

The suicide is the result of not getting what one desires !!!

One can understand the level of desires people in Bangalore have, which could not be fulfilled.

One should have minimum desires and always try to live happily in whatever resources granted to them by the Supreme LORD !!!

It is depressing to read a family committing suicide. These suicides could have been due to loss of social security, financial burden of living for just this moment, or many other factors. These can’t be just because they did not a family cushion. Yes! It could be a factor.

@Dr.Saini, it is easier said than done to have less desires! I guess satisfaction is the key to happiness; otherwise one is in a eternal cycle of want.

That’s definitely very striking that, the IT hub of the country, also, can face such a hard and a bitter truth of people’s lives. But apart from all this, this is what people find the only way to escape of their irreversible problems.

I would like to put up a very straight but a grilling question. Is this the only way that a normal human being ends up with to get freed of his/her tensions. I don’t agree with this notion.

But the matter of fact there has to be done something or the other to stop this thing becoming into a trend.

It’s all about pressures, tension and urge to be a better person, financially and socially

When people who set way too high targets fail to achieve and follow their dreams then they tend to finish things up the easy way. Some solution , I guess

@Sharmila, very true. But what about parents who kill their children?

I have a feeling that this is related to the growing graph of high alcohol consumption there. Kerala has India's highest suicide cases and Kerala also has the highest number of boozers. A former alcoholic friend (completely on the wagon now for 4 years) told me that heavy drinking makes one depressed and thoughts of suicide keep on occurring.

It may well be a coincidence that five people committed suicide on a single day there in Bangalore. To call it the suicide capital of India without having verifiable data is undesirable. It maligns the name of a city.

Lifestyle has a lot to do with suicide. We are living in a pressure cooker of a world these days. With so many deadlines to meet, expectations to live up to etc. have made people extremely sensitive towards things that could be ignored like a chiding by boss, a fight with a girlfriend etc.

It is stress that is taking a heavy toll on Bangaloreans that is driving them to commit suicide. The city has grown faster than the people could take it. Bangalore is no longer the serene retired person's air conditioned city.

@Chintan, I appreciate your concern...I live in Bangalore, mentions of suicides in local newspapers is a reality, not a one-of case...a very harsh reality. By my saying so Blore does not become a suicide capital, I have written a post where I have just discussed the problem, and asked for possible solutions. It is very easy to have an ostrich-like attitude and wish away the problem. Unfortunately, I am not one of those people.

I’ve heard the tag before ”Bangalore - sucide capital”, and I thought I’ll do a check if there are other articles on the subject. And I found one on South India being a sucide capital. It looks very convincing, till you read the finer details in another interveiw linked to it:

Here is the first one with quotes about how South India is a sucide capital: http://www.rediff.com/news/2004/apr/15spec.htm

Here is the second one:
http://www.rediff.com/news/2004/apr/19inter.htm

The point in the second article that interests me is:

”It is more here [in South India] because I think it is properly monitored. We have health workers who live in the villages and they know what is happening there. This kind of system is difficult to duplicate. We have an excellent system of surveillance.

You mean, there won’t be much difference between southern India and the rest of India?

I think so. I don’t know that for a fact. I think if you could put this kind of system in place, you may find similar high rates elsewhere in India.”

So the problem that we are the sucide capital of the world may be simply because we are transparent?

But that still leaves us with the problem: Why sucide?

@ Chintan, what Nishi has stated is not a mere coincidence but naked truth. I don’t know how much facts and figures will portray the grim realties and the agonies that the friends and kins of the families or individuals go through when their near and dear ones commit suicide! Instead of being bothered whether the name of the city is being maligned or not, we should think about corrective measures and try to curb this grim situation. All of us are just penning our thoughts, clinically detaching ourselves from the real scenario. At least a more sympathetic approach is definitely desirable.