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HYDERABAD, India — Sai Kumar Meegada, a 20-year-old straight-A chemical engineering student at a prestigious university here, came home from breakfast one morning early this month, slipped a length of clothesline around his neck, tied it to the ceiling fan in his dorm room and hanged himself. Enlarge This Image Lynsey Addario for The New York Times The brother and mother of Savera Begum say she killed herself in the name of Telangana, an Indian region seeking statehood. Enlarge This Image Lynsey Addario for The New York Times A poster memorializes Karunakar, who killed himself in Andhra Pradesh, India, in for the Telangana cause in January. “For the people of Telangana, this is my final salute,” said a note he left, referring to the decades-old struggle to create a separate region in Andhra Pradesh, a large state in southern India . “My final and last request is take my...

Derek Shearer Professor of Diplomacy at Occidental College and former US ambassador Posted: February 24, 2010 10:54 AM BIO Become a Fan Get Email Alerts Bloggers' Index Passage to India: Monsoon Wedding Meets Slumdog Professor What's Your Reaction: Important Fascinating Typical Scary Outrageous Amazing Infuriating Beautiful Read More: Globalization , India , Obama Foreign Policy , Study Abroad , World News 7 21 views vote now Buzz up! Get Breaking News Alerts Share Comments 8 A few weeks ago in New Delhi it felt like I had walked on to the set of A Great Big Indian Wedding , become a cast member, and had the film become reality. My wife Sue and I were members of an Indian wedding -- dancing, singing, eating, and laughing to celebrate the marriage of the youngest son of one of our oldest Indian friends. I had carried the groom on my shoulders around Disneyland when he was seven, and now Sue had henna tattoos on her arms, and I wore a colorful Sikh turban, and danced in the...