The news below are copied from different papers and posted for documenting purpose.
Hindustan Times reports
IISc student commits suicide Press Trust Of India
Bangalore, August 27, 2007
First Published: 17:04 IST(27/8/2007)
Last Updated: 04:01 IST(28/8/2007)
A PhD student of the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) in Bangalore committed suicide due to "depression" by hanging himself in his hostel room, a senior police official said on Monday.
Ajay Srichandra was found hanging from the ceiling of his room by his friend at 10.30 am, Deputy Commissioner of Police (Central) BNS Reddy told PTI in Bangalore.
"His friend Deeptaroop Nandi, who had earlier called him on the mobile but got no response, went up to his room and rang the bell which also went unanswered. When he peeped from the window, he saw Srichandra's body hanging from the ceiling," he said.
Police, who were alerted immediately, removed the body and sent it to the nearby MS Ramaiah hospital for an autopsy, he said.
A suicide note, addressed to his father found in Srichandra's room, read, "I am sorry dad. The world is not for me. It is too much for me to take," Reddy said.
Rediff reports
IISc student commits suicide
August 27, 2007 19:58 IST
A PhD student of the Indian Institute of Science committed suicide in his hostel room in Bangalore, a senior police official said on Monday.
Twenty-two-year-old Ajay Srichandra was found hanging from the ceiling of his room on Monday morning, said Deputy Commissioner of Police (Central) B N S Reddy.
"His friend Deeptaroop Nandi called Ajay on his mobile but got no response. He went up to Ajay's room and rang the bell, but there was no answer. When he peeped through the window, he saw Ajay's body hanging from the ceiling," informed Reddy.
Ajay's body was sent for a post-mortem to the M S Ramaiah Hospital.
A suicide note addressed to Ajay's father was found in his room. "I am sorry dad. The world is not for me. It is too much for me to take," stated the note.
Ajay had been pursuing his doctoral thesis in integrated science at the IISc since the last two years.
According to his professor Raghavendra Gadagkar, Ajay, a resident of Hyderabad, was an "irregular student who was not attending his laboratory classes regularly". Professor Gadagkar had asked Deeptaroop to talk to his friend and find out the reason for his irregular attendance.
According to the police, Ajay confided in Deeptaroop and told him on Sunday night that he was "depressed and not comfortable in IISc". Anxious about his friend, Deeptaroop volunteered to stay with him in the night, but Ajay assured him that it wasn't necessary."
"It is a case of deep depression and we are investigating the matter," said Reddy.
Deccan Herald reports
Pressure drives IISc student to suicide
DH News Service, Bangalore:
Wilting under academic pressure, a 21-year-old IISc student allegedly committed suicide by hanging himself from a ceiling fan at the students hostel in the campus here in the wee hours of Monday
The deceased has been identified as V Ajay Sree Chandra, a native of Hyderabad, who was doing his integrated PhD.
Ajay was to have turned 21 in another four days. All that he has left behind is a suicide note scribbled on the small white board in his room. It read: “I am sorry dad. The world is not for me and I cannot live. It's too much for me, I can’t take it.”
Ajay had been a trailblazer all along. Securing 88.83 per cent in the matriculation exam, he scored 94.14 per cent in PUC and 83 per cent in BSc. Dreaming of making it big in his chosen field of ecological sciences, Ajay excelled at the IISc entrance exam in 2006 and was among the top 12 students selected for the biology division.
Ajay was staying in a room on the I floor of the new hostel block F002.
He was awake late on Sunday night, watching TV with his hostel-mates Diptaroop Nandi and Sumantra Roy among others.
“He looked depressed throughout the evening and when we offered to stay with him, he said he should be left alone,” said one of his hostel-mates.
Ajay’s absence at the breakfast table on Monday forced his friends to call him on his mobile phone. When they didn’t get any response, Nandi and Roy decided to drop in at their friend’s room. As Ajay did not open the door, the boys peeped in through the window only to see him hanging from the ceiling fan.
The security personnel who broke open the door. Ajay was rushed to the health centre where he was “declared brought dead”.
Prof Raghavendra Gadkar, head of the department of ecological sciences, said: “Ajay was a bright student. I had taken only one class for him and there was hardly any interaction with him. Probably, he might have found it difficult to cope up with the academic pressure. It is a matter of time. Usually students find it tough in the beginning but they excel as the days roll by.”
Ajay’s parents are on their way to the City.
CV IN EXCELLENCE
SSLC: 88.83 per cent from Hyderabad
PUC: 94.14 per cent from a Nalgonda college
BSc: 83 per cent from Nizam college, Osmania varsity
IISc Entrance 2006: Among the top 12 and was selected for the biology division
Nanopolitan - Blog of Prof. Abinandhan, IISc
In what appears to be a depressed state, Ajay Srichandra, a student in Biological Sciences at IISc, committed suicide yesterday. From the news reports, we gather that one or two friends and a teacher were beginning to be aware of Ajay's depression but, sadly, he ended his life before psychological help could reach him.
Suicides are always tough to deal with, and all I can do now is to repeat the rather un-original message I posted back in December 2005 (following the suicide of an IIT-K student): depression is treatable. There's a lot of very helpful (and academically validated) information available at the American Psychological Association on both depression and its opposite, emotional health. See, for example, this overview on depression. Another recent article talks about prevention strategies such as teaching school kids anti-depressive thinking.
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