Hyderabad, September 03: Near to the small shed built to house and worship Ganesha at the KVR Towers at Miyapur, another enclosure is being readied to receive the body of Yalavarthi Sweeya.
The third year B.Tech student at IIT-Patna had committed suicide by jumping off her hostel building on Thursday morning, within just 10 days of her 19th birthday.
Always regarded as a quiet person by those who knew her, Sweeya was an academically bright student who was also the state 10th rank holder in SSC exam, scoring 100 per cent marks in Mathematics and General Sciences.
Her teachers at the school she studied in remember her as a quiet gogetter.
“Being a sensitive girl, I believe that her inability to match up to the standards she had set for herself might have discouraged her, as a result of which she took her life.
She had been a bright student throughout school and in junior college but probably fell short of her goals in IIT,” says M Kodanda Ramaiah, principal of Krishnaveni Talent School at Kukatpally where Sweeya was a student from 7th to 10th standard in the IIT-coaching batch.
The principal said that Sweeya had kept in touch throughout her junior college days and added that she was given full freedom by her parents and wasn’t pressurized by her family.
In IIT too, Sweeya seemed to have done well but not well enough as she would have wanted.
Though she scored a grade point average (GPA) of 7.8 in her end-semester examinations in May, Sweeya was bothered about her average performance which led to depression.
Sweeya’s uncle, Sambasiva Rao expressed his grief at the unforeseen incident and said that none of her relatives had noticed anything amiss in the girl’s behaviour.
Surprisingly, the neighbours seemed clueless about Sweeya’s death and none of them knew the family well though they had been residents of the house since the last two years.
The last rites of Sweeya will be performed on Saturday.
She is survived by her mother Sudha Rani, a Mathematics teacher at Krishnaveni Talent School, her father Y Nirmal Babu who works for the chemical industry and sister Grahya who is a student of 6th standard.
—Agencies