The tragic death of range forest officer Deepali Chavan shows what women have to go through to survive one of the country’s toughest jobs.
Note: This story includes a summation of circumstances that drove a forest officer to end her life. Reader discretion is advised.
In the wee hours of 25 March, just moments after he’d learned of Deepali Chavan’s death by suicide, Uday Deshmukh tossed, turned, and begged for sleep to come his way. It didn’t. So utter was his disbelief and so deep his shock, he had to take sleeping pills to force somnolence upon himself.
Deshmukh is an advocate and former assistant government pleader who represented officers in Amravati district. He’s also president of The Kula Kaasa Foundation, a non-governmental organization …
Roshni is a features writer and former editor of The Morning Context's Chaos team. Her career spans The Ken, Reuters, the Hindustan Times and DNA. She is a recipient of the UNFPA Laadli award and was shortlisted for the RedInk Awards 2016 for her story on Mumbai’s leprosy colonies. Her far-flung ideas would sometimes drive our editor-in-chief Ashish up the wall, but he wouldn’t have had it any other way (even if he didn’t admit it).
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