Sushant Singh Rajput’s Suicide Case: internet trolls sensitivity among Tibetan professional netizens

The viral pandemic COVID-19, originated in Wuhan, also known as ‘Chinese Virus’ as coined by the US president Donald Trump, through the confinement period in every respective country, has spared such leisure in the hectic life of the 21^st century, for a family, for a couple, for every individual, for a loner. Though it’s our own life, our own time, it has been rather long since we’ve taken it as something of separate entity to chase after but always sort of tumbled short of something as a gist despite running that much after. Though it has come as a miracle to connect to ourselves and spend time with our beloved ones, we find ourselves not being able to go on without a means of distracting ourselves. We find sort of stranded; said as the possibility of ‘domestic violence’, if the confinement has to be enforced further on.

Amid the rise and ebb of hope of concocting and bringing out a vaccine by this and that leading nation, amid a series of floundering gestures on YouTube as inspirational clips to brave through the limbo and fight back the torpor, in our Tibetan communities diaspora like everywhere else, amid the metallic forte of the Tibet’s right groups’ rapping about not letting go of the ‘golden’ opportunity to make China responsible for her irresponsibility and suffer, the beloved boon called internet is there to save everyone to find a niche to fill, to find a stage to showcase one’s talent, to express as one wishes with this given carte blanche. It’s really sad sometimes to find an elderly one toying with his or her smart phone on a train or metro; he or she is busy with something like bubbly Candy Crush. But it’s already a major part of our inveterate needs. And, amid our own small circles, the ongoing period has witnessed more than ever webinars like Talk Show, Live Show, Daily Vlog, and some featuring ones as well, but the latter ones are drowned in the former ones in such towering ratio.

But here and there a certain leading figure by the name of King, Queen, Minister has begun to present as at his or her wit’s end, no more space of toleration for ‘haters’, ‘trolls’, ‘negative comments’, bursting out of the cozy fame forged during the period and putting himself or herself out of his or her countenance by wearing such coloration of a visage. Some say it’s serious; we have to think before we type out a word. But the enterprise is itself vulnerable in the first place, given our trait of willing to reveal more about ourselves, to draw on more audience despite the quality of the content rather naïf as not backed by a sound means of expression. But who can be reasoned so nowadays? Everyone thinks he or she is smart; the variability of his or her own mother-tongue isn’t seen but palliated by speaking some of a foreign language rather levied on for this livelihood in an alien land where one can see cherry blossom and its ephemerality.

The recent suicide case of Sushant Singh Rajput, said as the young actor of some blockbuster, a victim of ‘nepotism’ in the Indian film industry Bollywood, said also as of haters’ trolls, is brought out by King, Queen, Minister in vindicating the seriousness of demoralizing, negative writings that can inveigle one into perdition like abetting to commit suicide. And, at the same time, sobriquets like ‘psycho’, ‘broken Tibetan’, ‘defamer of Tibetan ideals’ are seemingly taken so seriously.