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Sixty plus and Going Strong – commentary
(Translated from the original in Chinese)
There are 1000-year old trees in the mountain, but not many 100
year-old people…………….At most, you live until 100 years (only 1 in
100,000).
If you live until 90, you only have 10 years……..If you live until 80,
you only have 20 years.
Because you don’t have many years to live, and you can’t take along
things when you go, you don’t have to be too thrifty. Spend the money
that should be spent, enjoy what should be enjoyed, donate what you
are able to donate, but don’t leave all to your children or
grandchildren, for you don’t want them to become parasites.
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Indian Cocktail – commentary by Ravi Dev
Indian Cocktail – by Ravi Dev
Over the years, I’ve thought a lot about the phenomenon of suicide. It’s not that I’m morbid. As an Indian in Guyana, I’m not sure how one can avoid such thoughts. With almost 200 suicides a year and more than three-quarters of them being Indians, there’s hardly a week you don’t get a call from some friend or acquaintance about someone they or you know who took their life. Who hasn’t been touched?
It’s been so ever since I can remember. Friends from other communities would joke: “What’s the name of an Indian cocktail? Malathion!”
But interesting enough when I started looking into the epidemic, I found that in the villages of the Bhojpuri belt from where most of us had migrated from, suicide had been a rare occurrence. The figures of the 19th century showed that Uttar Pradesh had a rate of 6.3 per 100,000 while in the countries to which we had been exported to labour on the sugar plantations the numbers had skyrocketed to at least ten times that number. Continue reading →
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