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Suicide Among Indian Americans: We’re Depressed, But Who’s Listening?

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By Sunita Sohrabji
July 18, 2013

Editor’s note: India West reporter Sunita Sohrabji received a fellowship from the University of Southern California’s Annenberg School of Journalism to report on mental health disorders in the South Asian American community.

A year before he died earlier this year on April 23, Sunil Tripathi had dropped out of college at Brown University, allegedly suffering from bouts of depression.

Tripathi, 22, went missing Mar. 15 from his Providence, Rhode Island, home, leaving behind his cell phone and his wallet. The former philosophy major, who played saxophone in a jazz band, also left a three-word note: “goodbye cruel world,” according to several media sources

Editor’s note: India West reporter Sunita Sohrabji received a fellowship from the University of Southern California’s Annenberg School of Journalism to report on mental health disorders in the South Asian American community.

A year before he died earlier this year on April 23, Sunil Tripathi had dropped out of college at Brown University, allegedly suffering from bouts of depression.

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