Some wished to have a little more of life while some threw it away recklessly. May be it is wrong to compare two completely different incidents but the common factor, death, urges me to. On 31st March, under the debris of negligence were trapped hundreds of innocent lives in one part of the country while in some other part a famous TV star apparently decided to end her life. Each day, new stories about the suicide of Pratyusha Banerjee is unraveling and flooding the websites, televisions and newspapers. Stories of whether it is at all a suicide or not. Who is the culprit behind it and which famous persona said what about it?
The day just before she died a sudden flyover collapse in the ‘City of Joy’ crushed some of the innocent lives beneath it. Some friends who were back there in the city, who were trying to help told what they saw. There couldn’t recover from what they saw, people whose tears didn’t flow from the eyes as pain kept flowing in red, people who groaned and howled to save them but remained trapped till the last breath. Those that were defeated in the battle of life are heroes because the fought the same.
Without getting into the blame game focusing on the prime aspects of ‘death’ and ‘life’. Those that have gone cannot be brought alive but we can make sure that no other individual chooses “suicide” to end their problems, whatever it may be so. For everyone is not blessed with a gift called life. If one is blessed with one, they shouldn’t throw it away. Possibly, media’s sense of responsibility should be much more than discussing about, “Jamshedpur girls losing track after initial successes in the film and TV industry”. Anti-suicide discussions will be more welcoming, I guess.