How India s Silicon Valley Became Its Suicide Capital
The High Tech Mirage (2014): Once nicknamed India s Silicon Valley, Bangalore is becoming better known as the suicide capital. Intolerance towards failure and ambition to increase their financial status is proving deadly for the city s youth. Subscribe to journeyman for daily uploads: http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=journeymanpictures For similar stories, see: The Indian Banker Taking a Grass Roots Approach to Reforming the System https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Anj40tIggQ India s Criminal Child Mines https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75Zl2aLU4BQ How India s female untouchables are fighting back https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPHHcJHqXOc The centre of engineering, aeronautics, biotechnology: Bangalore holds the key to India s future. "I m free to live my life, make my own choices. It s an amazing feeling to be independent," says Nilut, a 20-year-old call centre employee. She works 12-hour nights shifts and earns $260 a month. But overwork, stress, separation from family and a culture of intolerance to stress and failure have increased Bangalore s suicide rates by 40% in the last decade. "As soon as your firm needs you, you have to be there and work, be it day or night", confesses one IT professional suffering from depression. Providing cheap labour and building itself on the needs of bigger international economies, Bangalore is now paying the highest price. Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/journeymanpictures Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/JourneymanVOD https://twitter.com/JourneymanNews Follow us on Instagram: https://instagram.com/journeymanpictures For downloads and more information visit: http://www.journeyman.tv/film/5992/the-high-tech-mirage Wild Angle Productions – Ref. 5992 Journeyman Pictures is your independent source for the world s most powerful films, exploring the burning issues of today. We represent stories from the world s top producers, with brand new content coming in all the time. On our channel you ll find outstanding and controversial journalism covering any global subject you can imagine wanting to know about.
