{"id":4557,"date":"2008-09-10T23:47:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-10T18:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.indiauncut.com\/?p=2992"},"modified":"2008-09-10T23:47:00","modified_gmt":"2008-09-10T18:17:00","slug":"the-end-of-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indiauncut.com\/the-end-of-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"The End Of The World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rediff.com\/news\/2008\/sep\/10end.htm\" title=\"Fearing end of the world, girl commits suicide in MP\">Rediff reports<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>A 16-year-old girl in Madhya Pradesh allegedly committed suicide after watching news about the possibility of the end of earth, following the atom-smasher experiment in Geneva that began on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Chhaya, a resident of Sarangpur town in Rajgarh district, consumed sulphos tablets (an insecticide) on Tuesday, her parents said. <\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Her parents told reporters that she had been watching reports about the world&#8217;s biggest atom-smasher experiment in Geneva on news channels since the last two days, following which she got restless and ended her life.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s a horribly sad story, and I wonder what went through her mind as she made her decision, and what other factors contributed to it. I&#8217;m guessing she wasn&#8217;t particularly happy otherwise, and there were other black holes in her life besides the notional ones in the news. (Speaking of which, <a href=\"http:\/\/limericker.blogspot.com\/2008\/09\/indiatv-tries-to-do-lhc.html\" title=\"IndiaTV tries to do LHC -- Anonick\">read this<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>And see the irony&#8212;I read this story shortly after getting an email from <a href=\"http:\/\/acorn.nationalinterest.in\/\" title=\"Nitin Pai\">Nitin<\/a> that today is World Suicide Prevention Day. I&#8217;ve been keeping a close watch on myself ever since.<\/p>\n<p>(Link via email from <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.prathambooks.org\/\" title=\"Gautam John\">Gautam<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rediff.com\/news\/2008\/sep\/10end.htm\" title=\"Fearing end of the world, girl commits suicide in MP\">Rediff reports<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>A 16-year-old girl in Madhya Pradesh allegedly committed suicide after watching news about the possibility of the end of earth, following the atom-smasher experiment in Geneva that began on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Chhaya, a resident of Sarangpur town in Rajgarh district, consumed sulphos tablets (an insecticide) on Tuesday, her parents said. <\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Her parents told reporters that she had been watching reports about the world&#8217;s biggest atom-smasher experiment in Geneva on news channels since the last two days, following which she got restless and ended her life.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s a horribly sad story, and I wonder what went through her mind as she made her decision, and what other factors contributed to it. I&#8217;m guessing she wasn&#8217;t particularly happy otherwise, and there were other black holes in her life besides the notional ones in the news. (Speaking of which, <a href=\"http:\/\/limericker.blogspot.com\/2008\/09\/indiatv-tries-to-do-lhc.html\" title=\"IndiaTV tries to do LHC -- Anonick\">read this<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>And see the irony&#8212;I read this story shortly after getting an email from <a href=\"http:\/\/acorn.nationalinterest.in\/\" title=\"Nitin Pai\">Nitin<\/a> that today is World Suicide Prevention Day. I&#8217;ve been keeping a close watch on myself ever since.<\/p>\n<p>(Link via email from <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.prathambooks.org\/\" title=\"Gautam John\">Gautam<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,32,14,15,22],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The End Of The World - India Uncut<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/indiauncut.com\/the-end-of-the-world\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The End Of The World - India Uncut\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Rediff reports: A 16-year-old girl in Madhya Pradesh allegedly committed suicide after watching news about the possibility of the end of earth, following the atom-smasher experiment in Geneva that began on Wednesday. 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