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The beautiful and the damned
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9/12/2023
Listen to excerpts from Outlook's Suicide Isn't A Moral Question issue, by Pragya Vats.
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This is Pragya and I bring to you excerpts from the latest issue of Outlook,
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"Suicide isn't a moral question."
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The issue looks at serious public health concerns that suicide poses.
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7,03,000 people die by suicide every year, according to the World Health Organization.
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Suicide is a political, economic, societal, cultural and mental health question.
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September 10th is World Suicide Prevention Day
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and the issue delves into farmer suicide, student suicide and suicides that have been caused by trauma.
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India decriminalized Suicide with Mental Health Act in 2017.
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A part of the cover story of Outlook looks at the human-made disaster in Himachal.
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The Beautiful and the Damned by Chetan Mahajan and Ananya Mahajan.
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Chetan lives in Satkhol village in Uttarakhand where he runs the Himalayan writing retreat.
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Ananya is an environmental policy research based in New Delhi.
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Kunal Chand is not harvesting the ready crop of cauliflower this year.
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My potato and pea crop was completely destroyed.
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Gobi survived but it will all be thrown away.
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The loss is 80,000 rupees, he says.
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Kunal Chand is a resident of Soja, a village near Kulu Valley.
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Roads on both sides of the village were washed away in the recent floods,
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cutting the village off from the local mandi.
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He was still lucky because his land did not get damaged.
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Panki Sud, another Kulu resident, was not so fortunate.
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He owns a piece of land close to the Beas river.
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During the flood, the Beas changed its course and the land is now a part of the river.
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Most politicians throw up their hands and blame these disasters on climate change.
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They aren't wrong. The climate definitely is changing.
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An 84-year-old man in Kulu claims that he has never seen such concentrated rain and hail in his lifetime.
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Climate change is a threat multiplier for disasters like the ones we are seeing in Uttarakhand and Himachal Pradesh,
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says Joyadip Gupta, the editor of The Third Pole,
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an online platform focused on watershed management in the Himalayas.
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But it is also being used as an excuse for ill-planned development.
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It is easier to deflect blame onto rich countries for their emissions.
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It camouflages the fact that roads and buildings have been built
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without any consideration of the guidelines.
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Same for dams and bridges, he adds.
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and more read the latest issue of Outlook.
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