The suspected suicide of a 20-year-old student at Amal Jyothi Engineering College in Kottayam district’s Kanjirapally last week has brought attention to how self-financing engineering colleges in Kerala have straitjacketed their students in pursuit of academic goals.
Former students, including a film scriptwriter, spoke out about their harrowing experience at the college, while hundreds of students are protesting at the campus.
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