"I was treated literally like an unpaid domestic help," 29-year-old Rema finds it hard to hide a sob, as she narrates her painful ordeal. Going by families and tribal activists, tremendous stress due to extreme social scenarios, coupled with pressure and harassment due to marriages and relations outside the community, alongside burgeoning liquor rackets contribute to suicides. As per data …
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Four suicides by tribal people in four days – two men and two women, all aged below 30! The death of newly-wed Induja of Palode two weeks ago is a pertinent pointer to the alarming increase in suicides among tribal people in Thiruvananthapuram. This is not the first time suicides by tribal people in the state capital have set …
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The house in Mullachal, Palode, looked desolate and grey-toned as the inhabitants await justice for their beloved Induja, a newly wed woman who was found hanging in the first-floor bedroom of her husband’s house in Elavattom on December 6. Sheeja, Induja’s mother, spoke of her daughter with a calmness that seemed almost frozen in time, as if she had …
