Drug overdose – video goes viral

Location: Prem Nagar, KotKapura, in the northern Indian state of Punjab.

22 year old Balwinder Singh appeared to have died of drug overdose. A video of his grief-stricken mother crying beside his dead body has gone viral. According to Avtar Singh, who recorded the incident on video, the local youth are majorly on ‘Chitta’ – a cocktail of drugs.

In Punjab, drug epidemic is the biggest problem – not jobs or corruption. In the 1980s, a violent separatist insurgency used to be the number one problem in the state; it's plausible that the political situation is to be blamed in part.