The recent tragic death of a chief manager in a large public sector bank, reportedly linked to severe work pressure, should not be dismissed as just another headline. In a nation of 1.4 billion, there is always the risk that such human tragedies are seen as statistical footnotes to a larger growth story.Yet it is precisely this human cost, often unseen and uncounted, that forces us to ask what kind of system quietly drives those who keep it running to such despair. It is not numbers alone that demand scrutiny, but the culture that makes such loss possible.