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News Snippets

  • SP drops two candidates owing allegiance to Azam Khan from Rampur and Moradabad
  • In Assam, a controversy erupted after a picture of UPPL leader Benjamin Basumatary, lying on a stack of Rs 500 notes circulated on social media. UPPL is an ally of the BJP
  • AAP's Jalandhar-West MP Sushil Kumar Rinku joins the BJP. He was the only AAP Lok Sabha MP
  • Supreme Court dismisses Centre's plea to review its 2023 verdict in the PMLA case
  • Close save for passengers as they remain unhurt after the wings of two planes graze at Kolkata airport. Pilots derostered and inquiry ordered by DGCA
  • Bengal BJP leader Dilip Ghosh gets notice from the EC as well as the BJP for making ugly remarks about Mamata Banerjee's parentage
  • Sadanand Vasanth Date, who faught terrorists in the 26/11 attack and was awarded the Preisent's Police medal, has been appointed the head of the NIA
  • Centre will borrow Rs 7.5L cr in the first six months of FY25, nearly 50% of the target for the full year
  • 25 stocks, including SBI, will see same day trade settlements from today in the world's fastest settlement mode in both BSE and NSE
  • Stocks recover smartly on Wednesday: Sensex rises 526 points to 72996 and Nifty 118 points to 22123
  • Tennis: Rohan Bopanna-Matthew Ebden reached the semifinals of the Miami Open
  • IPL: records tumble as SRH beat MI in a high-scoring match. SRH score 277/3 with 18 sixes and Mumbai score 246 with 20 sixes to fall short by 31 runs. Atotal of 38 sixes, highest in an IPL match were hit and both teams combined to score 523 runs, the highest aggregate in an IPL match
  • Amul will launch fresh milk in the US
  • IPL: RCB beat Punjab by 4 wickets as Kohli and Karthik shine with the bat
  • India strongly objected to German foreign office remarks over the arrest of delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal, called it "biased assumptions"
Delhi Lt Governor Vinai Kumar Saxena says government cannot be run from jail, hints at President's Rule in the capital ////// In a dangerous incident, the wings of two planes grazed while taxiing on the runway at Kolkata airport, all passengers were safe but DGCA ordered an inquiry and the pilots were derostered
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Life Lost For Rupees Twenty

By Anukriti Roy
First publised on 2021-02-06 15:09:42

About the Author

Sunil Garodia Anukriti is a student who dabbles in writing when she finds time.

In a disturbing incident, an idli seller on the outskirts of Mumbai (Mira Road in Thane district) was killed by three persons as an argument over Rs 20 escalated into a fight. In the resulting melee, the vendor was pushed and fell on the ground, hurting his head. As the miscreants fled, local people took him to a nearby hospital where he was declared brought dead.

This is not the first time that a person was killed following an argument over such petty amount of money. A couple of years ago, in a similar incident, a person was killed after he got into a fight with another person over Rs 10 in the Kalighat area of Kolkata.

Even as we read about scams involving mind boggling sums of money and television shows and movies show people talking about crores of rupees, it is extremely distressing to know that people still get killed for amounts that even street beggars treat as petty change.

How do people fly into a rage potent enough to kill someone else for such small sums? It is not immediately known whether the Mira Road incident was an accident after an argument or was due to personal enmity, but the Kalighat incident was purely for getting back Rs 10 loaned to the victim. Has human life become so inconsequential that people can kill for Rs 10 or 20?

In situations such as the above, it is often uncontrolled rage that makes a human being kill another. This shows the need for anger management and counseling. It is good that there is increased focus on mental health nowadays as that is one area of wellbeing that was either made fun of (someone with mental health problems is derisively referred as mad) or ignored completely. Rage is a mental health problem and has to be addressed through counseling, yoga/exercise or meditation or a combination of any two or all three.