Dehradun, May 19 -- Hopelessness is striking people belonging to all sections of society, from the well-off to the poor. As a result, reports come in of a woman throwing her infant children into a canal and then jumping in after them; and of a woman jumping off a building in Greater NOIDA; and so on, day after day. And it is not just women in difficult domestic situations, many of those ending their lives in various ways are also men.
There is no doubt that present day existence has become very complex no matter one's material circumstances. Faced with harassment of various kinds, financial hardship, tough conditions of existence, people take recourse to the extreme step, sometimes even taking with them other family members they do not wis...