A police officer investigating at the crime scene where Congress leader Saeed Khan alias Malguzar killed his wife and then shot himself at Gohalpur in Jabalpur, MP.
An African Union soldier stands in front of destroyed shops near the scene of a suicide car bomb attack on a police station adjacent to the seaport in the capital Mogadishu, Somali...
Peoples paying last respect at the coffin of Former Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister Kalikho Pulon in Itanagar .
Students attend a candlelight vigil for professor William Klug at the University of California, Los Angeles. A former UCLA graduate student killed a woman in Minnesota before carry...
This undated photo shows Mainak Sarkar, who police say carried out a murder-suicide at the University of California, Los Angeles. Sarkar had a "kill list" with multiple names that ...
Members of Patidar Community take part in funeral procession of Bhavin Khunt in Surat. Khunt committed suicide by a consuming poison during "Jail Bharo Andolan" for the release to...
Actor Rahul Raj Singh, coming out of Bangur Nagar Police Station after an investigation in actor Pratyusha Banerjee suicide case, in Mumbai.
Students at University of Hyderabad seeking justice for Rohith Vemula
Parents of Pratyusha Banerjee, Soma and Shankar Banerjee address a press conference in Mumbai.
Parents of Pratyusha Banerjee, Soma and Shankar Banerjee addressing a press conference in Mumbai, Maharashtra.
JNUSU President Kanhaiya Kumar addresses a protest march by various organisations demanding justice for Rohith Vemula at Jantar Mantar.
JNUSU president Kanhaiya Kumar leads a protest march of various organisations demanding justice for Rohith Vemula at Jantar Mantar.
Exile Tibetans watch the funeral pyre of 16-year-old Dorje Tsering at a crematorium in Dharmsala.
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal addressing a protest rally over Rohith Vemula's suicide at Jantar Mantar in New Delhi.
In Memoriam Remembering Rohith, who wanted to be a science-writer, like Carl Sagan
Rohith’s brother Raja, right, and college mate Shaik Riyaz
Students of St Joseph's College of Arts and Commerce shout slogans during a protest against the death of dalit student Rohit Vemula, in Bengaluru.
Member's of civil society protests over Rohith Vemula's death, at the people's march in defence of the republic, in New Delhi
Member's of Cicil Society carrying large poster of Rohith Vemula, during people's march in defence of the republic, in New Delhi.
Member's of civil society protests over Rohith Vemula's death, at the people's march in defence of the republic, in New Delhi
A 19-year-old youth, who was taken into custody by police for questioning and later let off, allegedly committed suicide a
The agrarian woes seems to be unending across Madhya Pradesh, as another debt-ridden farmer allegedly committed suicide by
Union minister Maneka Gandhi believes men do not commit suicide and even says she hasn't heard of a single such case.
An English teacher in the UK asked over 60 teenage students to draft a suicide note for homework as part of a module on Sh
The last thing the 13-year-old Arbaz Nabilal Attar wanted before ending his life were new textbooks and school uniform.
A 26-year-old man allegedly committed suicide by hanging himself in Ulhasnagar township in Thane after a tiff with his ex-
One more debt-ridden farmer allegedly committed suicide in Madhya Pradesh, taking the number of cultivator deaths in the s
A German national working as a contractual professor in JNU threatened to commit suicide allegedly after his services were
A 27-year-old Ph.D scholar allegedly committed suicide today at the Nalanda apartment in IIT-Delhi.
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The Delhi High Court today rejected a plea filed by a group of lawyers for lodging an FIR on the allegations made in a pur
Chennai, Jan 31 (PTI) Tamil Nadu government today said suicides of farmers in the state were not related to crop failure o
Chennai, Jan 31 (PTI) Tamil Nadu government today said suicides of farmers in the state were not related to crop failure o
Sudhir Kakar on the large number of reported suicides following two recent deaths Michael Jackson in June from an overdose of drugs and Andhra Pradesh chief minister YSR Reddy this month in a helicopter crash:
Suicide, on the death of a leader, has been sanctioned in many cultures. In Japan, for instance, hara-kiri, with its 1,000-year-old history, though now officially forbidden, has been an honourable way of expressing grief over the loss of a superior. In some Brazilian tribes, it was customary upon the death of a chief for his retainers to kill themselves so that their souls might serve him in the spirit world. Nearer to YSR's home state, the Avippoli form of suicide in Tamil culture, in which warriors killed themselves on learning that their commander or king had died, is said to be deeply embedded in the Tamil psyche. Suicides after the death of a leader, especially one who had become a folk hero, are thus not only a pathological form of mourning as psychoanalysis would have it, but also need a social and cultural gloss for their fuller understanding.
Read the full piece at the Times of India: Following The Leader, In This World And After
