Shanti Sharma passes away
Abhik Majumdar
been a suicide. She had been depressed since the death of her daughter
some time ago, which was initially thought to be a suicide as well,
but has been established to be an accident (her mobile, an expensive
one, slipped out of her hand and in trying to catch it she
overbalanced).
http://www.twocircles.net/2008apr23/classical_singer_shanti_sharma_dies_mysteriously.html
A tribute article:
And a masterpiece from Punjabnews online (no mention of who she was
and, for good measure, they even got her age wrong):
Bhuvanesh
> It's been confirmed now. Deeply disturbing - her death appears to have
> been a suicide. She had been depressed since the death of her daughter
> some time ago, which was initially thought to be a suicide as well,
> but has been established to be an accident (her mobile, an expensive
> one, slipped out of her hand and in trying to catch it she
> overbalanced).
>
>
> A tribute article:
>
> http://www.thaindian.com/newsportal/uncategorized/she-kept-singing-ti...
>
> And a masterpiece from Punjabnews online (no mention of who she was
> and, for good measure, they even got her age wrong):
>
> http://www.punjabnewsline.com/content/view/10100/93/
I'm really sorry to hear about this. If people knew she was depressed
they should have taken better care of her. Unfortunately it seems that
in India depression is still looked down upon and sometimes denied,
although things are improving.
Bhuvanesh
Bhuvanesh
depression:
Bhuvanesh
zefy...@gmail.com
Infact, she was concentrating on her career and channelling all her
energies into her music. Her family (by marriage) is responsible for
everything that has happened, and they are feeding the media with
stories they find convenient.
It is truly sad that such a brilliant artiste should suffer a fate so
heinous.
zefyretta
Abhik Majumdar
On what factual basis do you make such otherwise libellous and thus
actionable statements?
Abhik
Town Crier
zefyretta:
>
> On what factual basis do you make such otherwise libellous and thus
> actionable statements?
Zefyretta needs to watch out for sure. OTOH, TOI seems to have met
some friends of hers who doubt the depression part.
In one of the reports originally cited hubby Dinesh said "my", not
"our", teenaged son is taking it very badly - worth half a raised
eyebrow IMHO.
And the TOI report concludes its second last para with "The police,
however, said that inquest proceedings were on.", so perhaps we will
be hearing more later.
DG
Abhik Majumdar
Well, they have quoted all of one friend who has categorically denied
her depression. But even she doesn't come up with any motive her
husband, or anyone else, might have in doing away with her.
This link contains some really defamatory allegations about the
husband, that too posted anonymously:
http://www.twocircles.net/2008apr23/she_kept_singing_till_fateful_plunge.html
The thing is, if even a fraction is true, then she'd have enough
grounds for depression. Conversely, if they are not true and yet she
made such statements, that might indicate some sort of mental
instability.
> In one of the reports originally cited hubby Dinesh said "my", not "our", teenaged son is taking it very badly - worth half a raised eyebrow IMHO.
Maybe it's just bad English? I mean, the poor man is disturbed
enough.
> And the TOI report concludes its second last para with "The police, however, said that inquest proceedings were on.", so perhaps we will be hearing more later.
Maybe not. If the postmortem report did indeed reveal nothing
suspicious, then about 80% of the matter is taken care of as far as
the cops are concerned.
Abhik
