A lethal dose of silence
On April 4, a young pharmacist breathed her last following an attempt to end her life 11 days earlier. In a letter found buried in a work diary, she narrates how torture, exploitation and manipulation drove her to take the extreme step. T. Appala Naidu visits a devastated family in a remote village and learns how the 24-year-old suffered it all in silence until it was too much
India