Shocked and saddened by the suicide of V G Siddhartha – cannot believe it!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Siddhartha founded the Cafe Coffee Day chain and changed the way India drank coffee. He created thousands of jobs, a great brand and shared wealth. He also backed Mindtree and underwrote Infosys shares. He made other IT investments and gave support to the founders. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Why did he do this? We will never know the reasons. He came from a strong family, had great political and business connections. He was a successful entrepreneur. There are talks about the pressure of PE investor, Income Tax harassment and Debt woes. But an entrepreneur knows all such challenges – at what point did it really get too much? Or was there something else?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It is impossible for us to judge what he must be going through. No one can imagine his situation. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
My point is simple\u2026.Suicide is not the answer. Life is a gift. Setbacks give way to sunshine. Today\u2019s problems will go away. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Suicide means end of a great talent and human potential. It means failure of the human spirit. <\/strong>It leaves behind emotional scars for family and friends for life – a guilt that they could not do enough. <\/p>\n\n\n\n And yes, no individual nor any organisation is worth giving up our live for. <\/p>\n\n\n\n When one feels low, please talk to friends. Listen to music – a cure for everything. Spend time with nature. Or help others – world is full of more unfortunate people and helpless situations than us – help others. Instead of giving up life, help others<\/strong> live a good life and one could find our own meaning of life. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Reach out fo self-care group, suicide prevention helplines like Sneha, Parivartan etc.. Organizations like Moodcafe<\/a>, White Swan Foundation<\/a>, Live Love Laugh Foundation<\/a>, MPower Minds<\/a> can help as well. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Choose life. Suicide is not the answer. This too shall pass. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Image Courtesy: Faris Mohammed<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Shocked and saddened by the suicide of V G Siddhartha – cannot believe it! Siddhartha founded the Cafe Coffee Day chain and changed the way India drank coffee. He created thousands of jobs, a great brand and shared wealth. He also backed Mindtree and underwrote Infosys shares. He made other IT investments and gave support […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3557,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,11,13,1],"tags":[313,927,1011,1012,1013,1103,1115,1657,1826,1877],"class_list":["post-3556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-career","category-classical-gyan","category-food-for-thought","category-uncategorized","tag-cafecoffeeday","tag-live-love-laugh-foundation","tag-mental-health","tag-mental-health-awareness","tag-mental-wellbeing","tag-moodcafe","tag-mpower-minds","tag-suicide","tag-v-g-siddhartha","tag-white-swan-foundation"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashok-karania-wordpress.staging9.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashok-karania-wordpress.staging9.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashok-karania-wordpress.staging9.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashok-karania-wordpress.staging9.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashok-karania-wordpress.staging9.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ashok-karania-wordpress.staging9.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3556\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashok-karania-wordpress.staging9.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashok-karania-wordpress.staging9.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashok-karania-wordpress.staging9.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashok-karania-wordpress.staging9.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}