Parents of the three children were overcome grief and the burden of knowing that they perhaps expected too much of them.
“I knew my son was not very studious but I used to pressurise him to study well. But that was for his own good. I don’t want my son to become a farmer like me. I never realising what effect it was having on him,” said a sobbing Vijaya Ranga Reddy, father of Chandra Manohar. He owns a five-acre piece of land on which he cultivates groundnut in the rainy season and tomatoes and cotton during the winter. But the crops often fail. “It’s been four years since I have earned anything from of my land,” he said. “I didn’t want that life for him.” Chidambar Reddy, relative of Nageshwar Reddy, wondered if it was wrong of parents to prod their children to study well. Teachers at the Yadiki Government High School remembered Rajasekhar as always a reluctant pupil. “Raja always was unwilling to come back to school after the annual holidays,” said the headmaster, Mr. Ranga Swamy.
