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MUSIC/
SUICIDE
Coincidence or Correlation?
Suicide. Derived from the old
Latin sui meaning of of onself
and caedere meaning kill.
According to Google the usage of the
word has had a steady rise since the
1800s. And with reports of residents of
the tinsel town committing suicide the
usage never dipped.
On 3rd January, 2015 ‘The Dirty Strikes’, a post
punk rock band from Manipur completed 5
years together. But on 4th January, 2015 tragedy
struck and the founding member of the band
Bom Leimapokpam, 24 committed suicide. Fresh
from performing at the Vans New Wave Asia
Music Fest in Goa in November and celebrating
his birthday on 15th December, the band was
readying themselves for a performance on their
home turf of Manipur on 17th January, 2015.
The Tragic death of Bom Leimapokpam has
managed to escape media’s attention... probably
because he was not as ‘famous’. Like Bom, there
are several other musicians whose self-inflicted
deaths go unnoticed. Here we try to shed some
light on the daily struggles of a musician to stay
relevant and the circumstances that lead to that
penultimate decision.
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