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The quote of the day comes from a piece in The Times of India by Mohammed Wajihuddin that reexamines suicides in Vidarbha:

Why would he choose to jump into a well which was three kilometers away from his house when he could have easily killed himself by swallowing pesticide?

Read the full piece. Doesn’t it superbly demonstrate this? And these?

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