Woman Indian doctor commits suicide in Hyderabad over US visa rejection
Hindutva-driven ‘atmosphere of suffocation’ forces Indian professionals to flee
New Delhi: A 38-year-old Indian woman doctor has allegedly committed suicide in Hyderabad city over rejection of US visa.
According to Kashmir Media Service, the woman doctor identified as Rohini from Guntur district in Andhra Pradesh has allegedly died by suicide at her flat in Hyderabad due to depression over not getting US visa, said a police official.
The incident came to light after her family members, who stay in another locality of the city, broke open the door when there was no response to door knocks and found her dead, police said.
It was the domestic help who informed the family of the deceased, after she did not open the door, police said.
A suicide note was found from the house which purportedly wrote that she was under depression and it also mentioned about the rejection of visa application.
Lakshmi, mother of the deceased, said that her daughter was eagerly waiting to go to the US for a job but became depressed due to visa denial.
Across India, anthropologists point out, a growing sense of suffocation under the Hindutva-driven political climate, rising economic distress and deepening social fractures is pushing many educated professionals—particularly doctors, engineers and researchers—to seek escape abroad at any cost. The tragic suicide of an Indian doctor reflects a wider national despair: soaring unemployment, shrinking opportunities, increasing censorship, communal polarization, and an atmosphere where merit and dignity feel overshadowed by intolerance and authoritarianism.
According to anthropologists, for countless young Indians, today’s India offers neither security nor social harmony, prompting a mass desire to migrate as the only path to a stable and dignified future.
