3 student suicides shock Ranchi
The suicides of three college students in Jhark-hand’s capital Ranchi in three days has renewed concerns about the high pressure on young minds for faster educational and social success as per the expectations of their parents and peers. That one of these suicides committed with the help of Internet advice has caused further worries among psychologists and educationists.
Mala Singh, 21, a final year B.Tech student of Birsa Institute of Technol-ogy (Trust) and Anuj Mehta, I.Sc part one student of Gossner College, both 21, killed themselves by hanging from ceiling fans on Saturday, while Arnab Mukherjee, a fifth-year student of BIT-Mesra’s architecture department and also 21, did the same on Friday.
In Mukherjee’s hostel room in the reputed technology institute’s campus near Ranchi, the police found a webpage open on his laptop saying, “How to hang yourself”. His laptop also played Bob Dylan’s 1964 song for the times they are a-changin’ as the bespectacled youth from Ranchi, the only child of his middle-class parents, hanged himself. He is said to have done badly in one of his final-year semesters.
Suicide notes left by each of the three dead students said nobody other than themselves was responsible for their extreme steps. Mala Singh asked her father to forgive her, writing that she was “frustrated with my life and ending it”. While she did not explain her frustrations, Mehta wrote that he was heartbroken because the girl he loved no longer loved him. “Mummy, papa sorry,” he wrote. Mukherjee’s note to his parents sought their forgiveness and quoted lines from Dylan’s song.
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