'Ek Hi Zindagi Hain,' IIT Student Commits Suicide, Writes A Moving Note Urging Others To Live

A final year master¡¯s degree student committed suicide by hanging at his hostel in Indian Institute of Technology, Hyderabad (IIT-H), attributing his decision to take the extreme step to his ¡®poor grades¡¯ and ¡®failure to secure a job¡¯.

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Mark Andrew Charles left behind an eight-page suicide note, a copy of which is with TOI. ¡°I don¡¯t have a job, probably wouldn¡¯t get one. No one hires a loser! It¡¯s amazing to look at my grade sheet. A few more letters and it¡¯ll look like an alphabet chart,¡± the youth from Varanasi wrote.

This is the second suicide reported at the institute this year. In February, a third-year student, Anirudhya Mummaneni, had jumped off the seven-storey hostel building. Mark was doing his masters in design and had recently completed his second-year exams. He was due for a final presentation on July 5.

¡°I did have dreams, just like everyone. But now, it¡¯s pretty empty. All this positivity, the constant smiling, telling people that I am ok, even though I¡¯m not,¡± Mark said in the letter addressed to his friends and parents.

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The master¡¯s student apologised to his parents for not being able to do justice to the sacrifices they made for him.

¡°Two years away from home, at the best institute, with the best of people around me, I wasted it all,¡± the letter read, requesting his parents to not bury him and instead hand over his body for medical use.

¡°I¡¯ll make a good specimen cadaver to the future doctors of India,¡± he wrote in the note.

He also apologised to all his friends and said the last two months of his life were the best.

He advised a few of his friends to not ¡°waste¡± their lives in the IT industry -- ¡°Ankit, Rajjo, IT me kaam karte karte apni life matt bhul jana. Live a little everyday. Ek hi zindagi mili hain.¡±