CHENNAI: A 26-year-old student of IIT-Madras went missing from her hostel on Tuesday, bizarrely leaving behind notes in her hostel room that said she was heading to the Himalayas to attain sainthood.The city police said Vedantam L Prathyusha, from Brodipet in Guntur district of Andhra Pradesh, was a second-year MS student in the IIT-M’s department of engineering design.Students said they last saw Prathyusha on Sunday morning. Police said that some of the students had complained about her disappearance later on Sunday, following which the hostel warden opened her room and found two notes — a two-page note in English letter and another of three pages in Telugu.A police officer said Prathyusha’s notes stated that she wanted to have an adventure and do research in spirituality. Her pages on social networking sites also indicate that she she had an avid interest in spiritual texts like Ramayana, Mahabharata and Bhagavad Gita.“As far as we know, Prathyusha informed no one about her plans,” an official said. “Her friends tried calling her on her cellphone but couldn’t get through. They later contacted her parents who said she hadn’t returned home.”IIT-M director Bhaskar Ramamurthi said Prathyusha’s parents had requested them to file a police complaint as they could not locate her as it would take them some time to come to Chennai.“Based on the family’s request, we filed a complaint with the Kotturpuram police,” he said. The Kotturpuram police registered a missing person complaint and are attempting to locate her.