Posted on 05/04/2006 12:58:16 AM PDT by HarmlessLovableFuzzball
KANPUR: A 23-year-old Indian Institute of Technology-Kanpur (IIT-K) student, Shailesh Sharma, on Wednesday committed suicide by hanging himself in his hostel[dorm] room. A resident of Pande Mohal, Nariya in Varanasi, the deceased was a final year student of dualdegree programme at the chemical engineering department.
IIT-K officials claimed that the student might have taken the extreme step under depression after coming to know that he had failed in two courses —advanced thermodynamics and advanced fluid-mechanics. The exams had got over only on Wednesday after which Shailesh had seen the F grading in the two subjects.
According to Shailesh’s batchmates, he had failed in advanced thermodynamics for third time in a row and had shared his failure and acute distress with his classmates. "On Tuesday, he came to know about his failure and was quite depressed. Today he committed suicide after having lunch with us," said a student, who was with Shailesh minutes before he ended his life.
"Though we can’t draw any conclusion, it is true that he had done badly in two courses. This might be the reason behind the incident," said dean of students affairs (DOSA) Prawaal Sinha. Sinha said that the body had been sent for postmortem and parents of the deceased had been informed about the incident.
The incident invited strong reaction from the students who claimed that authorities could have saved Shailesh’s life by changing his course options. Hundreds of students assembled at Hall One where Shailesh used to live and demanded that the grading be made public. They also took to task Professor RB Chhabra of advanced thermo-dynamics who was present there. "We want to know whether Shailesh was intentionally being harassed by the authorities," said an enraged student.
On November 30, a similar case was witnessed when mechanical engineering second-year student Dharaskar Swapnil Chandrakant had committed suicide by jumping from the roof of the administrative block. The IIT-K authorities had then attributed stress as factor behind the incident. Shailesh is the fifth IIT-K student to have committed suicide.
Civil engineering student M Chowdhary had hanged himself in 1981 and third-year mechanical engineering student Yadapalli Venkat and another student Vimal Jha had taken the extreme step in 1987 and 1999 respectively.
Hardly. We are not talking failing once, or failing twice, but failing THREE times ! Once you have failed a course like Advanced Thermodynamics THREE times, you are unfit to coexist with the rest of humanity !
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And all those things are illusions like fame. The person was unbalanced to start with. He was a bomb ready to go off. Maybe it's a good thing he did not get to build big things with critical functions that many people rely on.
I don't discuss my private medical matters in public. But I do appreciate your tuning in.
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If this guy was 'unbalanced' because he killed himself as he failed in an exam , then my guess would most people in societies oriented towards academics must be the same way as well - Indians , Japanese , Chinese , and certainly a lot of Americans......Some folks take this stuff -exams , degrees , grades seriously.
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Hey "Rush", who are the Stillers?
Good try dude. Rush Limbaugh did discuss his medical matter with all his listeners. His conclusion that he came too, after many of us emailed him about the fraud of autoimmune disorders, was that had he known then what he knows now, he would have treated for infection aggressively to save his hearing.
So you are not THE MAN, THE LEGEND, A WAY OF LIFE, WITH INTELLIGENCE TEMPORARILY ON LOAN FROM GODDDDD!!!
"Cast" isnt the issue here.
I am glad you(and others) believe that. Because if you didn't, then with all the publicity this thread would suddenly become about me. Thats not what I want. If you want to talk to me about my hearing problem without getting too specific, you can bring it up tomorrow on Open Line Friday. Cheerios !
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"advanced thermodynamics and advanced fluid-mechanics"
Heat rises, and fluids seek the lowest point of gravity.
How can you fail THAT???
I am surprised he was smart enough to hang himself.
Unless I am mistaken, this school is nearly impossible to gain entrance. Entry is dependent solely on the results of a nationwide test and only the top thousand or so are accepted. Having achieved acceptance under such rigorous rules and then fail could have serious emotional consequences even for well balanced individuals. In many instances, these students have spent years preparing for that single examination and acceptance. If students in the US had only one tenth of such commitment to education, education in this country would not be in such dire straits.
It wasn't the THEORY that killed him... it was trying to work the equations that was his demise.
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