CHENNAI: It was a sorry coincidence that the suicide by an IIT-Madras student took place on the day when the candidates were appearing for the Joint Entrance Examination (JEE). But parents of the aspirants expressed shock and grief, wondering if something was amiss in the campus. Several parents who spoke to Express outside two examination centres revealed their dismay at the spate of suicides at IIT campuses. According to them, while entry into the premier institute provided the comfort and surety of a successful professional life, that a number of students took away their own lives showed something was wrong with the system. “I think the system has forgotten that at the end of the day, these are young children whose maturity would allow bearing of only a certain amount of pressure,” said M Raman, whose daughter wrote the test in Mylapore. Some blamed forcing students into engineering as the root cause for such extreme steps. “Newspapers reported that the student who committed suicide at Anna University wanted to write poems. It is when such people are given the burden of what they don’t like that such incidents occurred,” said R Muthuraman, an engineer. These parents said constant communication with the wards must be ensured so that he or she was given a chance to vent out things that bothered them. “Loneliness could be the worst trigger of suicidal tendencies,” said Sabapathi, a retired government employee.
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