"Ma, I Don't Need Money...": Kolkata Doctor's Mother On Daughter's Dreams

Talking of the day of the horrific rape and murder, she said, "Even on that Thursday she left the house and she helped many patients at the hospital.

In a heart-breaking letter, the mother of the Kolkata doctor who was brutally raped and murdered at the RG Kar Medical College last month, shared that it was her daughter's childhood dream to become a doctor, not for money but to be able to cure as many as possible.

The mother's letter, written on Teacher's Day, thanked teachers who helped realise that childhood dream. "I am the mother of the deceased... Today on Teachers' Day, I salute all the teachers on behalf of my daughter. Since childhood, her dream was to become a doctor. You were the driving force behind that dream," the letter read.

Crediting her teachers for her success, she said that although they, as parents, supported her as much as they could, it was "because she got good teachers like you, she was able to fulfill her dream of becoming a doctor."