GHAZIABAD: Writings on the wall of the room where the three sisters who died by suicide on Wednesday spent all their day offer the clearest path into the minds of the trio, indicating they battled extreme loneliness. “I am very, very alone”, “My life is very very alone” and “Make me a heart of broken”, they had scribbled. The eldest girl to die (16) and her two half-sisters had not been going to school since Covid, nor were they homeschooled. Leading a sequestered life, they did not go to the society compound to play with other children either. They were each other’s best friends, inseparable through the day. South Korea, what they knew of it from K-pop, music and dramas, seemed to have become their refuge in this extreme isolation, to the point that the sisters called each other by names borrowed from TV shows – Maria, Aliza and Cindy – and appeared to be living in a parallel world from which they shut their parents out.And the more they disapproved of it, the stronger the bitterness appeared to have become. In the diary, which TOI has seen, they listed 19 things the parents could have approved of but did not, among which were not just K-dramas but also Chinese, Japanese, Thai, American and ‘London’ (British) music and actors, besides cartoon shows Shin-chan and Doraemon, and mobile games.“You don’t know how much we loved Korea, now see the proof. Now it’s confirmed here that Korean and K-pop groups are our life. The way we loved Korean actors and K-pop groups, we didn’t even love family members that much,” the sisters, aged 16, 14 and 12, wrote in the diary. Saying they wanted to make Devu (younger sister aged 4) “our own”, the sisters admonished the parents for introducing her to “Amayra, Akshita and Anaya”. You made her Bollywood, which we hated more than life itself. “And when we introduced Devu to our K-pop and Korean relatives and said that Lino is your brother so you should call him Lino bhaiya and Kuina didi, Tina mummy came and said teach her some studies too, or will you make her Korean like yourself,” they wrote in the diary.This episode, they wrote, made them decide that they would separate Devu from their lives. The diary also contains references to beatings. It’s not clear from who. “Did we live in this world to get beaten by you… death would be better for us than beatings,” they wrote. And another cryptic reference is to marriage, for which the girls were too young. “The mention of marriage caused tension in our hearts.”Police suspect the diary was written by the 14-year-old girl. They have sent it for a forensic analysis.But simmering below this fantasy world of the children was a grim reality of a household in turmoil, both financial and personal. While their father Chetan Kumar, a stock trader, is believed to be deep in debt, because of which he apparently could not afford to send the daughters to school after Covid, he was also facing marital trouble.Two of his partners had walked out in May 2025 and Chetan had filed missing person’s reports at Teela Mod police station. After a few days, both returned. Police investigation revealed Chetan faced losses during Covid and took loans after that.
