Seminar

on

Multi Disciplinary Perspectives on Suicide: Experience

of SAARC countries

Centre for Economic and Social Studies, Hyderabad, India

9 -10th January 2009

Programme Schedule

Friday 9th January 2009

9:30 - 10:00 Registration

10:00 - 11:45 Inaugural Session

10: 00 – 10:10 Chairperson Prof. R Radhakrishna, Honorary

Professor, CESS, Hyderabad

10: 10 – 10:20 Welcome Prof. Manoj Panda, Director, CESS

Address

10:20 – 11:00 Background Suicides in SAARC Countries:

Paper Mapping of the Terrain

Prof. S. Galab, Prof.U.Vindhya & Dr.E.Revathi,

CESS, Hyderabad

Dr. D. Somasundaram, Department of

11:00 – 11:40 Speakers Psychiatry, University of Adelaide, Australia

Prof. Lakshmi Vijayakumar, Head of the Dept

of Psychiatry, Voluntary Health Services,
Chennai

11:40- 11:45 Vote of Thanks Dr. E. Revathi, CESS, Hyderabad

Rapporteurs Dr.M.Sridhar and Ms.Rachana Dhingra, CESS,
Hyderabad
11: 45 – 12:00 Tea Break
12:00 – 3:30 Session 1: Multi Disciplinary Perspectives
on Suicides

12:00 – 12:10 Chair Prof. R Radhakrishna, Honorary Professor,

CESS, Hyderabad

12:10 – 12:30 Speaker Prof. P. Radha Krishnan, Department of

Sociology, Madras Institute of Development
Studies, Chennai

Social Context of the Rise in Suicide

12:30 - 12:50 Speaker Prof.D. Narasimha Reddy, Visiting Professor,

Institute for Human Development, New Delhi

Economists’ Perspective on Suicide

12:50 - 1.10 Discussion

1:10 - 2:00 Lunch Break

2:00 - 2:20
Prof.Bhagavandas Lahoti, Department of
Speaker Philosophy, Osmania University, Hyderabad

Philosophical Reflections on the

Problem of Suicide and Murder

2:20 - 2:40 Speaker Prof. K. Srinivasulu, Department of Political

Science, Osmania University, Hyderabad

Regime Policies and Rural Crisis:

Contextualizing Suicides in Rural
Andhra Pradesh

2.40-3:00 Discussion
Rapporteurs
Ms. Rachana Dhingra and Dr. M. Sridhar, CESS, Hyderabd

3:00 - 3:30 Tea Break

3:30 -5:30 Session 2: Occupational Groups and
Suicides

3:30 – 3.40 Chair Prof. G.N.Rao (Retd)

Centre for Development Studies, Trivandrum

3.40 – 4: 00 Speaker Dr. Srijit Mishra, Associate Professor, IGIDR,

Mumbai.

Farmers’ Suicides in India : Some

Trends and Patterns

4:00 – 4:20 Speaker

Dr.Lenin Raghuvanshi, Director, People’s
Vigilance Committee on Human Rights, Uttar
Pradesh.

Suicides and Malnutrition among

Weavers in Varanasi

4:20 - 4:40 Speaker Prof. S.Galab, Dr. E. Revathi, Dr.P.Prudhvikar

Reddy and P. Dharmaraju, CESS, Hyderabad

Distress and Suicides among Weavers

in Andhra Pradesh

4:40 – 5:00 Speaker Prof.Rama Melkote and Prof.M.Kodandaram,

Osmania University, Hyderbad.

Starvation Deaths in Rural Andhra

Pradesh

5:00– 5:20 Discussion

Rapporteurs: Dr. Sowmya Vinayan and Ms.S.Lydia

CSD and CESS, Hyderabad.

Tea
Day – 2 Saturday, 10th January 2009

9:30 – 11:00 Session 3: Predictors, Prevention and

Policy Measures

9: 30 – 9:40 Chair Prof. K. C. Suri, Department of Political

Science, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad.

9:40- 10:00 Speaker Prof. Vikram Patel, Department of

International Mental Health, London School
of Health & Hygiene

The Social Determinants of Suicidal

Behaviour : Lessons from Goa

10:00 -10:20 Speaker Prof. Michael R Philips, Executive Director

Beijing Suicide Research and Prevention
Center, Beijing Huilonguan Hospital , China

Current status and future directions

for suicide research and prevention in
China

10.20-10.40 Speaker Dr. Anuradha Bose, Associate Professor,

Dept. of Community Health, CMC, Vellore

Suicides among Youth and Elderly-

Focusing on Pesticides

10:40 – 11:00 Discussion

Rapporteurs Ms.Rachana Dhingra and Mr.P.Dharma Raju,
CES, Hyderabad

11:00 – 11:20 Tea Break

11:20 – 12:45 Session 4: Socio- Political Destabilization

of Society and Suicides

11:20 -11:30 Chair Prof. G. Hara Gopal, Department of Political

Science, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad

11:30 -11:55 Speaker Dr. D. Somasundaram, Clinical Associate

Professor, Department of Psychiatry,
 Australia

Suicides in times of Civil Conflict

11:55- 12:20 Speaker

Mr.P.O.George, Social Scientist, Maithri
Kochi, Kochi, Kerala

Socio- Cultural Factors influencing

Suicidal Behaviour, With Special
Reference to Kerala

12:20- 12:45 Discussion

Rapporteurs: Dr.M.Sridhar and Dr.Sowmya Vinayan,

CESS and CSD, Hyderabad

12:45- 1:30 Lunch

1:30 – 3:30 Session 5: Gender Relations and Suicides

1:30 – 1:40 Chair Prof. Rama Melkote, (Retd)Department of

Political Science, Osmania University

1:40 – 2:00 Speaker Dr. Kapil Ahmed, Epidemiologist, St.George’s

University of London, London.

Violent Deaths among Reproductive

women in Rural Bangladesh

2:00 -2:20 Speaker E. Revathi, S.Galab and Lydia Sarella,

CESS, Hyderabad.

Farm Women in Post suicide situation in

Andhra Pradesh: Evidence from the Field

2:20 – 2:40 Speaker Dr. Zihadul Kareem, Professor of

Anthropology, Comilla University,
Bangladesh.

Suicide among the Women in

Bangladesh: An Anthropological
Investigation at the Empirical Level
2:40 – 3:00 Speaker Ms. Jameela Nishat,
Shaheen Women resource and Welfare
Association, Hyderabad

Distress among Old City Women of

Hyderabad

3:00- 3:20 Discussion

Rapporteurs Mr.P.Dharmaraju and Ms.Rachana Dhingra,

CESS, Hyderabd
3:20- 3:40 Tea Break

3:40 – 5:10 Session 6: Civil Society/ NGO Initiatives in

Suicide prevention

3:40-3:50 Chair P Radha Krishnan, Professor of Sociology,

Madras Institute of Development Studies,
Chennai

3:50- 4:10 Speaker Ms. Lakshmi Ratnayeke , Director,

Sumathriyo Rural Programme, Sri Lanka
Sumathriyo, Sri Lanka

Crisis Intervention and Suicide

Prevention in Rural Communities in
Sri Lanka (Grass-root Level
Experiences)

4:10- 4:30 Speaker Dr. Krishnan Gireesh, Clinical Psychologist,

Government Mental Health Centre,
Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala

Bias in the Design of Intervention- A

challenge to Suicide Prevention in
Kerala

4:30- 4:50 Speaker Mr.Ashok Tankashala, Editor, Vaartha Telugu

Daily

Media and Suicides

4:50 -5:00 Speaker Mr.Akheel Siddiqui
Roshini, Hyderabad

Suicide Across Life Span-Elderly and

Youth
5:00-5:20 Discussion
 Rapporteurs Dr.Sowmya Vinayan and Dr.M.Sridhar,
CSD and CESS, Hyderabad
5:20- 5:30 Tea Break

Valedictory session
5:30- 6:30
Chair: Prof. Manoj Panda, Director, CESS
Seminar proceedings in brief : Prof S Galab, CESS
Valedictory address by Chief Guest: Sri A K Goel,
Principal Secretary, Planning Dept. Government of Andhra
Pradesh

Vote of Thanks