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Before we get in today's episode, just a heads up that we're going to be talking about suicide.

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Nikhil was a star student.

His parents are farmers and comes from a humble family.

In fact, when he landed a job at Ola Krutrim, which is a high-profile AI company,

banners went up in his village because nobody had gone as far as he had in that village,

you know.

But then he started working at the company and he realized that the work culture is not what he

expected.

Parth Emin is an independent journalist who recently wrote a piece for the publication

rest of world, and the title of that article is Death of an Indian Tech Worker.

It's about Nikol Samanji, a 24-year-old machine learning engineer in Bangalore, a city that

some people have nicknamed India's Silicon Valley.

His family members told me that he had started working 15 hours a day.

His manager was kind of abrasive, which was not something he was used to.

He was a very soft-spoken, polite sort of a guy.

When he had come home for a couple of weeks, he had met his close friend.

They caught up and he basically told him that he's feeling

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