The media was agog with the news of Tulika’s suicide. She was a fairly successful television actress, found dead in suspicious circumstances. Her boyfriend, Raja, was the main suspect in the case, for abetment of suicide.
Investigation led to threats issued to her by traffickers, after her refusal to continue with weekend escort assignments. Tulika was a small towner, looking for an emotional anchor, in the big, bad city, and she had hoped to find that in Raja.
Soon, she was used by Raja for fulfilment of his material ambitions, and she found herself at a point of no return.
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Very dark, and excellently penned.
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Thanks!
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Welcome 🙂
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It is terribly sad when one feels suicide is the only option.
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Such a tragic situation!
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Very sad that the only way back, the only way to find peace is suicide.
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how… ‘inexorable’. An odd word but the one that comes to me for the feeling, right from the start that things wouldn’t just go from bad to worse, (we knew from the start that she’d died) but to be brought to feel a bit of the despair that character would have felt. well-crafted story
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Media news stories start with a fact, and then try to reach the bottom of a case. The final analysis often stuns people, but indicate the malaise of hollowness in celebrity lives.
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Wow, Horrifying.
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That “point of no return” is so often a feeling of being trapped in a situation where we can’t see a way out, or don’t have any energy remaining to implement one. I feel for all the Tulika’s, I’ve lived on that edge. But I also know it only takes one person to reach out and safe a life. We have to be on the alert for people who are drowning. Really good story, even if tragic.
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Thanks. Wish people shared more than they do.
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Such despair. The bottom is so dangerous when you can’t bounce even a short distance back up.
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It is a mindset of the moment – more of delusion and disappointment, than helplessness.
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A matter of degrees. Rushing off to check your post 🙂
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We picked the same title, but you went darker than I did. Nice flash!
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Very dark! Good visuals
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Thanks!
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