Global Urban Vision – November 2008
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I India
1. Techie hangs self, blames her colleagues: Being truthful and honest has cost me my life. I am giving it for a cause. Save working women from humiliation," was written in bold letters in one of her suicide notes. Soni (25), a software engineer working with Nokia in Marathahalli, wrote three suicide notes before hanging herself in her house at Jayanagar 9th Block. She said harassment by managers forced her decision. Soni addressed one of the suicide notes to her parents and brother Sunil, another to her friend Venkat, and the third one to the media and police. In the last mentioned, she pleaded for stringent action against the 'people/manager who torture'. In the note to her family members, Soni said both Teja and Suchin pressurized her to quit the job. "I always performed well, they didn't find any reason. So they gave me less work. When asked, they gave reasons that I didn't entertain guys/team... I can't quit until I get a visa, but I am in a bad phase of life. I am going to die," she wrote. She asked her parents to give all her money to Venkat so that he could do his MS. In her note to Venkat, Soni advised him to either get married or go back to Chennai. She also requested him to expose the problems her managers created. Tilaknagar inspector Srinidhi said the police have started the investigations. (http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Cities/Blore_Harassed_techie_hangs_self/articleshow/3535510.cms accessed on 28 September 2008)
2. Student killed by peers outside college: A young life bubbling with energy and dreams was cut short by his peers whose hands, instead of shaping a bright future for themselves, held fast to deadly weapons.
