Afterwaves of Covid-19. Is economic distress causing a spike in suicide deaths in India?  BY PARVATHI BENU March 20, 2023 - https://www.thehindubusinessline.com/data-stories/deep-dive/is-economic-distress-causing-a-spike-in-suicide-deaths-in-india/article66635113.ece
The suicide rate jumped to 11.3 in 2020 and was at a record high at 12 in 2021

But there has been a jump in suicides during the pandemic. The NCRB recorded 1.5 lakh suicide deaths in 2020, against 1.39 lakh in 2019. Between 2020 and 2021, too, there was a 7.1 per cent increase. In 2021, 1.64 lakh people took their own lives, according to the NCRB.

The jump in the number of suicides in 2020 and 2021, according to mental health experts, is clearly the after-effect of the pandemic and the financial stress that it brought along. “In 2020, during the lockdown, when you had a real financial crisis, the number of suicides, too, shot through the roof,” said Soumitra Pathare, consultant psychiatrist and director at the Centre for Mental Health Law and Policy, Indian Law Society, Pune.

Daily wage labourers and housewives combined, form close to 40 per cent of people who died by suicide in 2021.  Also, the National Family Health Survey points out that domestic abuse is still a very common thing in India. “Many times, a landless female farmer is mentioned as a housewife. The same happens with a female daily wager, too.

Mahua Moitra पर ड-र्टी टॉक कर बुरा फंसे भाजपा सांसद दुबे, धाकड़ महिलाओं के ग्रुप ने उड़ा दिए होश BJP MP Dubey trapped badly after dirty talk on Mahua Moitra, group of strong women shocked Mar 19, 2023
BJP MP Dubey trapped badly after dirty talk on Mahua Moitra
VKNV is the name given to me by FarziBhaiya - something to do with the city Vaishali and women I am told :-)
Vaishali ki nagar vadhu mahua moitra, bjp mp nishikant dubey on mahua moitra
All the workers are requested not to make light comments for the woman who does not care about big and small, especially for a woman MP from Bengal who is a victim of perverted mentality and my perverted legislature of Jharkhand. Society has given respect to Vaishali's city bride in its religion.

'Journalists should not accept awards from govts they critique': P Sainath declines AP government award https://www.indiatoday.in/india/story/maharashtra-bjp-mp-gopal-shetty-compares-farmers-suicide-to-fashion-trend-sparks-row-309345-2016-02-18  08 Jul, 2021

Explaining why in a series of tweets, Sainath said that journalists should not accept awards from governments they cover or critique as they are "external auditors to the government". Sainath told Newslaundry that his declining of the award should not be perceived as a comment against any specific government. “It is a personally evolved professional principle and I do not impose it on others,” he said. “I am not saying that everyone who accepts a government award will sing to its tune, but there is a certain ethical framework of protocol that I want to keep for myself.”

Sainath refuses Padma Shri https://www.hindustantimes.com/delhi/sainath-refuses-padma-shri/story-2alQHsika2dtlQdROnfjWN.html  Jan 30, 2009
Eminent journalist P Sainath, Rural Affairs Editor, The Hind, reportedly declined to be listed for a Padma award this year. In his journalistic career of 28 years, Sainath, who has received over 35 awards and fellowships, both national and international, including the ‘Asian Nobel’, the Magsaysay Award, in 2007, has noticeably not accepted a single government or state award.