Extreme escape attempts: Investigating suicide in contemporary Hindi fiction
Suicide is a serious global public health problem and India’s suicide death rates are among the highest in the world. In recent decades, the depiction of voluntary deaths (Hindi ātmahatyā) has become a quite common ingredient of Hindi fiction. Yatish in Ṭ-ṭā profesar, Anisa in Dāstān-e-lāptā, Sapam...
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Department of Linguistics and Philology, Uppsala University
2024-04-01
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| Series: | Orientalia Suecana |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.uu.se/orientaliasuecana/article/view/598 |