- Thursday, February 27, 2025
Zaidi went to the US to study master’s in TRINE University in Detroit and was left helpless after her belongings were stolen.
By: Shubham Ghosh
THE mother of a woman from India’s Hyderabad has appealed to external affairs minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar to help bring her daughter, who has been spending days in distress on roads in Chicago in the US, back home.
Syeda Lulu Minhaj Zaidi went to the American city in Illinois to pursue higher education but has been found to be fighting depression and is on the verge of starvation after her belongings were stolen.
Zaidi’s mother Syeda Wahaj Fatima has written to the Indian external affairs minister urging him to intervene and bring her daughter back to India.
The letter surfaced on social media after Khaleequr Rahaman, a leader of the Bharat Rashtra Samithi, the ruling party of the southern Indian state of Telangana of which Hyderabad is the capital, shared it on Twitter.
Ms.Syeda Lulu Minhaj Zaidi from Hyd went to pursue MS from TRINE University, Detroit was found in a very bad condition in Chicago, IL. Her mother has appealed @DrSJaishankar to bring back her daughter. Would appreciate the immediate help. @HelplinePBSK @IndiainChicago… pic.twitter.com/dh4M4nPwxZ
— Khaleequr Rahman (@Khaleeqrahman) July 25, 2023
He wrote, “Syeda Lulu Minhaj Zaidi from Hyd went to pursue MS from TRINE University, Detroit was found in a very bad condition in Chicago, IL. Her mother has appealed @DrSJaishankar to bring back her daughter. Would appreciate the immediate help.”
In the letter, Fatima wrote addressing Jaishankar, “My daughter Syeda Lulu Minhaj Zaidi, a resident of Maula Ali in Telangana, went to pursue her Masters at TRINE University in Detroit during August 2021 and was often in touch with us. But, for the past two months, she has not been in touch with me and recently we came to know through two Hyderabad youths that my daughter is in depression and someone stole her belongings, which left her to starvation. My daughter was spotted on the roads of Chicago in the USA.”
She also sought assistance from the Indian embassy in Washington DC and the Indian consulate in Chicago in the letter and said that her daughter could be traced with the help of Mohammed Minhaj Akhtar, a social activist.
