Vedantam L Prathyusha, a 26 year old second-year MS student of IIT (Indian Institute of Technology) Madras, left a note for her father and her friend explaining her wish of attaining sainthood at Himalayas. She went missing from her hostel on Tuesday and left two notes, one in Tamil and the other in English.

According to newspaper reports, the note also stated that she was being protected by God and will never be found by her family now. Hailing from Anantapur, Andhra Pradesh, Prathyusha was known to be a chirpy and a nice person and her friends also did not find a change in her behaviour in the last few days. Her parents requested IIT-M director Bhaskar Ramamurthi to file a police complaint as they could not locate her and it would take them some time to come to Chennai. The police has since filed an FIR in the case. A police officer found that her notes mentioned 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. She left early last Sunday and had filled in the permission register before leaving the hostel, in which she had mentioned that she would return on January 20.

Police said that some of the students had complained about her disappearance later on and that it was after she failed to reach her home in Guntur, Andhra Pradesh that her parents contacted the IIT administration.

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