Coming Back

"Coming Back", chronicles my journey during which I escaped from a dark and painful place in which I was a prisoner of depression and suicidal tendencies. Having reached the precipice of giving up, something, through the intervention of people and unexplained incidents, held me from tipping over. During that journey, the bully depression proved to be, its overwhelming force and lure to seek refuge in the arms of death, took hold of me. To break free, took strength to first accept that I had a problem which needed help and that taking my life should not be an option. It took strength to find strength to break its stranglehold. In doing so, I became fortified with a renewed purpose for living allowing me to fend off the beast depression could be. In the end, I was able to reject its calling and thankfully, now in a better position than before to be able to share my story with the hope that it could be found useful by those who suffer, especially those who do so in silence. I am also hoping it could be found useful in helping to remove stigmatization.

A Guyanese media and theatre personality and Indian cultural activist. A few years ago, he suffered terribly from depression and became suicidal. He hopes, that in some small way, this book could be found helpful to those who seem trapped in the bowels of depression and haunted by the vagaries of suicide. He worked in both private and State media entities and served as the Director of the Government Information Agency (GINA), from 2007 – 2015, serving three Executive Presidents during that period. He has written a number of stage plays including, "I Am Us", which speaks to some inherit challenges that inhibits holistic unity among Guyanese and the domestic-violence-based drama, "When Chocolate Melts", for which he won Best Playwright in the National Drama Festival held in 2013. He is also known for his involvement in promotion of Indian-based theatre and has written and directed numerous full-length Plays and adapted some popular Bollywood films for stage. In 2018, he was sworn in as the representative for the Indo-Guyanese constituent on the constitutional Ethnic Relations Commission. He served in various capacities in the media including Reporter, News Editor, Talk Show Host and would have conducted hundreds of interviews in the process. Subhan served a Member of Parliament of Guyana having been a candidate for the 1997 General and Regional Elections.