- ANURADHA NAGARAJ and RINA CHANDRAN
Chennai, India
Thomson Reuters Foundation
B Bhavani assured her father she would quit online card games – a promise she had made several times before as her family in southern India fretted about her mounting debts. A few hours later, the 29-year-old took her own life.
Bhavani, who was married with two young children, had racked up losses that her husband estimated at more than a million Indian rupees ($US12,255) since she started using online apps to play games like rummy about a year before her death in June.
“It started slowly, with small bets; my wife won a few times and then she wouldn’t stop,” R Bhagyaraj told the Thomson Reuters Foundation as his two-year-old son cycled aro…
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