According to the National Crime Record Bureau, around 70% of the Indians who ended their life last year were married.61,453 married men and 31,754 married women committed suicide in 2010.
“Not surprising!” is all that I can mutter even as I shudder at the prospect of being lynched. Do we really need studies and surveys to establish what most of us (men and women alike) have always known instinctively?!
Marriage, ask any man, is loaded against the masculine gender. More so in India. Add the burden of domineering wives, raucous women’s groups (Is there a single group taking up the cause of men?!!), and the oppressive laws, legislators, and law-enforcement machinery, diced against men … well, the statistics do not prove to be surprising at all.
19,702 unmarried men killed themselves while 11,108 unmarried women killed themselves.
Further, according to the report, 65% of men and 35% of women committed suicide in 2010.
Not surprising, again.
Women are the stronger, privileged gender! As they have always been!
All that talk to the contrary is the product of fertile imagination – the very same that is responsible for the romantic tales and poetry that have littered the world through millions of years!
