Ramaswami: Kolkata: On Saturday, 22-two-year-old Asif Iqbal Mondal hung himself from a mango tree in Kodanad, in Kerala’s Ernakulam district. He had run out of food and money several days before, and desperately wanted to return home. Not once but twice he had managed to book train tickets from Kerala to his hometown in West Bengal’s Murshidabad district – but both times, it had been cancelled. Asif’s father, Jabed Mondal, was beside himself while speaking to The Wire. “Everything is finished,” he said and broke down. Anwarul, Asif’s cousin, took the phone and said, “He can’t talk anymore. This is the situation at home since the news came. His mother has fainted several times.”