Santhosh, who left for college on Thursday morning, skipped the classes out of frustration over his parents' reprimand. He did not, however, go home that night.
After the outrage over the death of a Chennai woman who committed suicide after losing money in online rummy, the state government has come up with the measure to play the damage control.
There were several suicides in Tamil Nadu recently and all these deaths have a common factor to link with - the loss of humungous money in online games.
In what has become a message of caution, the recent suicides and his statement had pushed us to scrutinize what comes to our hand and where the digital world drives us.