Modi 2.0 And A Suicide: Fanfare Amid A Grim Reality

by Darain Shahidi May 31, 2020 • 12:33 AM Views 1166

The Modi 2.0 government is celebrating its first year in office. But beneath the fanfare lies India’s grim pandemic reality. In a ‘lesser’ headline, a man committed suicide by jumping in front of a Shramik special train in UP’s Lakhimpur Kheri. In a suicide note, the deceased, Bhanu Gupta, said that he had taken the step ‘because of poverty and unemployment’ due to the lockdown. He leaves behind a wife, three sons, two daughters and a widowed mother in ill-health, all of whom depended on him. Darain Shahidi asks the question that 'how many more Bhanu Gupta's are there?'