A female student at IIT-Madras has gone missing from her hostel, and a note recovered from her room says she wants to visit the Himalayas in search of spirituality.

Vedantam .L. Prathyusha from Guntur, Andhra Pradesh, has been missing from Jan 17. She was a second-year student of MS engineering design.

The note she left behind reportedly has been written in Tamil and English and was found in her room.

Prathyusha was reportedly staying at the Sharavati hostel at IIT Madras and then moved to Sabarmati hostel.

A college staff member said that she was always smiling and a nice person and her classmates said she was an energetic girl and did not appear to be depressed.