Comments on: Suicides at IIT-K

By: Friend

Friend — Wed, 11 May 2011 19:35:56 +0000

There have been 9 suicides at IITK in the last 5 years. Do you think that such a number of suicides happened coincidentally or there is something about the IITK system that caused it?

And who is it that committed these suicidies? These are among the best students of the country.

And 9 is just the number of suicides. One wonders how many went through depression and prolonged loss of self-confidence.

The problem is not that some students do not perform. It is how they are dealt with after poor performance that matters. And I know what I am talking about since I did my BTech there. Today, with God’s grace, I am doing amazingly well in my career by all yardsticks but there was a time my confidence had taken a hit. I am certainly not going to recommend IITK to anyone.

By: shivangi

shivangi — Tue, 30 Nov 2010 19:11:07 +0000

Dr S.G Dhandhe is the real culprit .Before him IITK was really the best place .

By: Saurabh and Nandan

Saurabh and Nandan — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 11:27:26 +0000

Hi Guys,
We are from IITK and in our opinion there is no such academic pressure.
If u want to flunk in any course, u really got to be extraordinarily careless.
Most Students here dont spend time with the course content stuffs, but rather TV series, movies LAN Gaming etc. . Only very few ppl actually plat outdoor sports despite huge facilities.
the LAN stuffs take away major time, more than Lecture hours per day.
If they ever make even a bit of effort to take a look at the course even just a few days before the exam, its gonna be really very difficult to fail, althoug a D grade will be most likely in tht case.

By: Parminder

Parminder — Tue, 13 May 2008 02:48:53 +0000

When some one complains about too much pressure at IITs in India it just makes me laugh as the pressure students are under actually makes sure that only those with nerves to endure that pressure pass through and those who cannot take this much pressure dont really deserve to be studying there.

I dont think its just this pressure about performing well that can drive some one to commit sucide but on the other hand if it did push some one to take such drastic step then I am sorry to say they were not able enough or capable enough to be burdend with the honour of studying at one of the IITs be it Kharagpur or Delhi or Mumbai it just doesnt matter.

I am pretty sure those students who have commited sucide must have been showing traits well before they even appeared for IIT entrance exam and should have been provided with proper councelling. I suspect that their parents had a big hand in pushing them into such a state where they started believing that flunking a course is the end of the world.

I am a big fan of IITs and the geniuses they churn out every year have really amazed the world with their success across the globe.

Show me one multinational company who isint after hiring one of us guys…

Yea keep looking I am waiting….

By: Vivek P

Vivek P — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 12:43:58 +0000

I am going to be a father very soon. And I have already decided – come what may, I will NEVER-EVER let my son/daughter even THINK of going to IIT Kanpur. I think more than the faculty or administration, it is the attitude of its students that makes the place really stink. IIT Kanpur is full of nerdy bookworms who think it is correct to have rigorous grading system as it nurtures excellence. And they are so used to a life-sans-life thasuits their masochistic thinking to have pressure in their lives all the time. But I think for people who believe in colors, songs and dances of life, IIT Kanpur is quite close to what one calls “hell”. I think it is a system of, for and by psychos and we better beware before sending normal people to this “den”. I’m sure all psucho students and psycho professors really really think IIT Kanpur is India’s greatest technical institute (apart from that one little mathematical proof, what the f*** has IIT Kanpur produced in last ten/twenty years by-the-way. I think more than helping the nation, IIT Kanpur and its psychotic students are a load on the country’s economy).
I request the reader to take full offence of my words, but only if he likes IIT Kanpur.

By: udit mehrotra

udit mehrotra — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 21:16:26 +0000

I think its high time that people stop beating around the bush and come to the root cause.If you so called social sympathy donors think that an electrical engineering student of iitk is unable to tolerate academic pressure and hence deserves to die then you have complete liberty of carrying out genocides in virtually every educational institute of the country.i am also pursuing engineering and know what it takes to fetch electrical in iitk.Secondly don’t blame the parents because they are not committing some cardinal sin by expecting their children to do good.
Now the root cause-the one and only reason behind such extreme steps is irrational and lunatic mentality of some faculty members who are involved in designing the course structure in such institutes.In their quest of following educational pattern adopted by a handful of prestigious US universities engineering students are compelled to rote subjects like biology,humanities and thousands of functions carried out by an efficient manager under the banner of PRINCIPLES OF MANAGEMENT.This story is not restricted to iits ,all copycats all following in.These are the very things that are responsible for sucking the juice out of students’ life and on top of that allotment of units to courses many times doesnot make sense ,grading system in most of the top engineering colleges is a complete bane.
for heavens sake donot say that uski majboori thi marna cause he couldnot endure academic pressure and all that rubbish…your opinion clearly indicates that your thoughts are moulded out of what gibberish you hear and donot have any relation with engineering by far.

By: Saurabh

Saurabh — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 19:16:41 +0000

Just to inform u that another 1st year IITK student committed suicide on 18th April,2008 while end sems were to start from 21 april

By: Abhi

Abhi — Mon, 28 May 2007 13:57:13 +0000

There have been 4 suicides in last 2 years.I dont have any idea of previous suicides.As far as cause for death is concerned no one can
say for sure what actually happened or what was the cause for such a
step.

Details:

Nov. 2005 :2nd year student of Mech. Engg. Dept. jumped from 6th floor of Faculty building hrs. before the CHM201 End semester Exams.

May 2006: Fourth year student of chemical engg. hanged himself just after grades were released.

Nov. 2006: Ph.D. student of chemistry dept. commited suicide.

April 2007: 3rd year student of Civil engg. dept. commits suicide during the end semester exams.

By: KM

KM — Tue, 15 May 2007 19:13:31 +0000

can anybody say howmany sucides happened in IIT-K till now. can you give details also?

By: KM

KM — Tue, 15 May 2007 19:11:04 +0000

can anybody give any clue abt Mr.Bhardwaja’s death? Is it really sucide or murder? plz if anybody knows plz post the info.