The girl wasn’t a victim of her own life. She was a victim of the social structures, economic hierarchy, and central institutions that bound her to an inconvenient education.

Her father, Ganta Srinivas Reddy said that she “wanted to be an IAS officer, she had so many goals.”

Her daily-wager parents, Sumathi and Ganta Srinivas Reddy, had mortgaged their house to fund their daughter’s higher education.

Ever since news of the student’s demise broke, students of the college as well as social media users have been demanding answers from the administration. The issue has brought to light the class differentiation and economic hierarchy that exists within elite institutions in the country.