by Charu Thakur | Jan 10, 2023
(January 10, 2023) On a bone-chilling night in February 2022, Amit Kailash Chandra Lath received a call from the Embassy of India in Poland to arrange for the accommodation of 250 Indian students stuck at the Ukraine-Poland border. The very same morning, Russia began...
by Vikram Sharma | Mar 11, 2022
(March 11, 2022) For the most part of the day, Mohammed Mahtab Raza had his eyes fixated to the skies – sometimes peeping out of his hostel window or tiptoeing out into the open area. Once it turned dark, the 23-year-old, one among scores of Indian students in...
by Vikram Sharma | Mar 5, 2022
Even as students face a dark and uncertain future, the centre and the National Medical Commission of India are in talks to explore modalities to accommodate thousands of students left in the lurch due to the abrupt cessation of their medical education. (March 5, 2022)...
by Vikram Sharma | Mar 3, 2022
(March 3, 2022) Even as the tragic death of Indian student Naveen Shekharappa in shelling as he went seeking food shocked the student community, there are stories of hope, and resilience emerging too. Far off on the Ukrainian borders, humanity shines through. Kind...
by Vikram Sharma | Mar 2, 2022
“We are stuck in Kyiv, help us!” a desperate plea from an Indian medical student stuck in war-torn Ukraine. Of the 18,000 students in Ukraine, thousands still await evacuation as the government advises them not to get to the border directly. From what we...
