Nepal, May 5 -- Barely two and a half months after the suicide of Prakriti Lamsal, a student at the Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology (KIIT) in Odisha, India, the country is reeling from reports of another suspected suicide of a young Nepali woman at the same university. Twenty-year-old Prisha Sah from Sarlahi district was found dead in the college hostel on Thursday. Again, with the broad ramifications of Lamsal's death still unclear, now, another case from the same institution in a short time should alarm both countries. The police have begun a preliminary investigation; and answers might start emerging after the post-mortem report is out.

But what is happening at the institution that is leading young Nepali women to choose to...