KENYAN STUDENTS IN INDIA CAUGHT BY TH REAL CULTURE SHOCK IN INDIA.docx

KENYAN STUDENTS IN INDIA CAUGHT BY TH REAL CULTURE
SHOCK IN THE CONSERVATIVE WORLD
CHALLENGES AT HAND AND LIFE BEYOND
BY
DUNCAN ISAIAH ODUOR ONYANGO ABWAO
Email; gombas2002@gmail.com, asp0399@spu.ac.ke
Phone; +254702235859
MEDIA AND COMMUNICATION LECTURER
ST, PAUL’S UNIVERSITY,
MULTI MEDIA UNIVERSITY OF KENYA,
THE PRESBYTERIAN UNIVERSITY OF EAST AFRICA,
FORMER LECTURER AT RONGO UNIVERSITY AND MOUNT KENYA
UNIVERSITY VIRTUAL CAMPUS RESPECTIVELY
FORMER LECURER AT GTI-Geothermal Research Training Institute- Faridabad
India
THE AUTHOR’S BRIEF BIOGRAPHY
Duncan Oduor Isaiah Oduor Onyango Abwao was born in south Nyanza
District, now known as Migori COUNTY to the lovely parents of Peter
OnyangoAbwaoandRoseAnyangoAbwao.HestartedhisschoolingatNkubu
Nurseryschool in Meru District andthen lateron shiftedto Ombasa Primary
school and Dede primary school south Nyanza. He did his CPE in Kituro
Boardingprimaryschool in Baringo District Kenya.
AsfortheO’Levelsecondaryschool,hejoinedKanyawangahighschoolnotfar
awayfrom Rongo Town MigoriCounty.He latertransferredto Lodwarhigh
schoolTurkanawherehecompletedhisordinarylevelorO’Levelexams.After

that he joined Tenwek high school in the now Bomet District before
transferringto the neighbouring Longisa highschool where he completedhis
advancedlevel exams(A’ level).
Afterhigh school,he taught history,English andgeographyat Dede girl’shigh
schoolandthenlaterproceededtoIndiaforfurtherstudies.HejoinedSriGuru
Gobind Singh collage Sector 26 Chandigarh, where he did his pre university
examsandlatertransferredto KurukshetraUniversityin Haryana State India.
There he graduated in B.A. Economics and Public Administration where he
obtaineda secondclassdivision.
He hasa post graduate diploma inJournalism andMassCommunication,PGD
in human resource management, PGD in Quantity management. PGD in
criminology and crime administration from the central institute of
management AmbalaCityHaryana State India.He has also done M.SC media
management from Sikkim Manipal Universityin GangtokIndia.
BOOKS YET TO BE PUBLISHED BY THE SAME AUTHOR
(1) WHY GOD HATES AFRICANS
(2) THE WAGES OF MY COLUR
(3) PILING LOGS ON A DONKEY
(4) MAY THE DOGS EAT IN PEACE
(5) HIV/AIDS; THE LETHAL GRENADE
(6) FROM KATHMANDU TO THE PROMISED LAND-a book depicting the life
of immigrants in INDIA
(7) THUGH LINGDOM FALLS-a book about Kenya

BRIEF INTRODUCTION
This is a brief sketch on some challenges that the Kenyan community in India have
faced over the past years or decades. India as we all know it, has been a favoured
destination for higher learning among Kenyan students and even business men. The
trend actually picked up from the time its economy took an upward trend when the
Government of the day liberalized the country’s economy. A Kenyan parent would
not hesitate sending his or her siblings to India for further studies. At first going to
India for studies was based on the fact that Kenya never had enough Institutions of
higher learning compared to India or the west.
From the time the first group of Asians arrived in East Africa for trade and settlement,
the good relationship between India and African countries has continued to flourish.
Due to the good understanding between India and African countries, the country has
been receiving a host of African students. With a booming economy and competitive
coursers offered at Indian universities,the country now attracts more foreign students
from the developing nations than any other part of the world. One main theory could
be the fact that the Indians are more welcoming than say Chinese or the gulf countries
or even the west. It is said that the first batch of African students landed in India in
the fifties and early seventies, Kenyans included. A group of Africans who now stay
in the remote parts of Gujarat and the Nicobar Islands might have arrived in India
much earlier than expected. Some came from the coast of east Africa like Mombasa or
Zanzibar. As years roll by, education adventures became the main focus among
Kenyan students. Kenyan parents sending siblings to India for further studies have
the opinion that India is affordable. In other words the fees charged most colleges or
universities are not as high as compared to the U.K Or the USA.
Kenyans going to India are expected to accomplish one mission their parents or
sponsors sent them for, that is to study. The Kenyan parents sending their children to
India expect them to succeed, that is finish their studies and return home. That might
be easy than done but India as a country is not an easy environment to cope with.
Students be it from Kenya or from some other parts of the world, often discover that
India is a unique territory and even studies might not be attained as per the time
duration expected. Still a Kenyan parent expects nothing other success. For that
Kenyan students are dotted all across India from north to the extreme south of the
country. All in the name of pursuing studies and more so to fulfil their academic
dreams. Be it young and old, Kenyans from all walks of life are in India to conquer the
academic world.
Kenyan students who studied in India are also believed to be doing quite well in their
respective careers in the country. Most parents have therefore been buoyed such a
positive impact. From engineers, doctors, economists and even lawyers, Kenyan
students have achieved all. The Indian community on the other hand views the inflow
of Kenyans or foreign students as a big boost to their Institutions of higher learning.
Such students are simplya source of income and someare fleecedbeyond means. An

Indian university would be happy to have as many foreign students as possible
becausethey are bringing a lot of cash with them. Some Institutions of higher learning
consider it a prestige to have foreign students within its campuses.
Despite easy admissions and even affordable fees, studying in India isn’t that easy.
The students have to come to terms with the reality that they are in a new ground and
life is bound to change dramatically/drastically. Studying in India doesn’t come on a
silver plate and one has to adjust to the prevailing situation as fast as possible. The
only language that a parent or a sponsor would like to hear is that his son or daughter
is studying and passing exams. The slogan in Kenya is that “if so and so succeeded in
India, why not you?”such parents are forgetting that children are trained and brought
up differently. Some students are likelyto succeedin India and others may end up not
accomplishing their mission. We may not know why some students succeed in India
while others don’t. Factors behind these are purelypersonal or individualisticandone
might never know the truth. It is also unlikely for any student who never succeeded
in his/her studies in India to come forward and state that factors behind it.
First of allthere is guiltin others for failing or not succeedingwhere their brothers and
sisters have got success. That brings us to the famous terms which most students in
India have coined over the last years “derailment”. The moment any train goes off the
track it is likely to derail. The reasons behind such train derailment are commonly
attributed to human errors, presenceof fog, technical fault or lack of signals. Thispiece
of research is not to pass any judgment on any student who might have succeeded in
India or not but to get to the root bottom of our future. As a matter of fact, a family
that is united is likely to achieve the impossible. Factors behind student failures in
India are a mystery and still I repeat, “one would never know the truth unless the
affected victim’s sing.”
CHAPTER 2
HOW KENYANS RELATE TO EACH OTHER
Kenyan students in India lead a very interesting life and perhaps unique so to say.
They try to stay as a family though students come from various backgrounds. Others
can come to the rescueof a fellow colleaguein times of distress or disaster considering
the challenges that befall the student community.
Kenyan boasts of multipleethnic groups each with its own different culture, language
and style of living.It is stillreflected among the students in India and it might not take
one time to know where one comes from if you hail from that country. To ease
financial burden, Kenyan students share rents and even food arrangements.
It is easy to witness a group of Kenyans staying together in a flat. Rents are shared
equally and help is accorded to the students whose remittance might have delayed
from reaching in time. The only major factor is that a Kenyan shouldn’t fellow

students so much. more so financially because the resources are limited.
Staying together and sharing rent doesn’t mean that allisalways wellamong students.
There are at times friction and misunderstanding within the student community. This
often leads to serious fights or any other form of violent confrontations.
Differences among the student community commonly emerge on issues related to
managing house hold duties. Since all students come from different backgrounds,
adjusting with each other can at times prove torturous for others. Some are being
exposed to independent lifestyle for the first time ever while others could be the
outgoing type and the rest introverts.
Some students on the other hand would rather associate with members from his/her
community back in Kenya. For that, they would appear comfortable speaking their
own language and adopt a lifestyle which is typically rural based. It has been argued
that some Kenyan students studying in India are perhaps more tribal than the way
they went to India.
To prove to the host nation India that Kenyans are more politically mature and
democratic, students normally hold elections under the banner of KASA (KENYAN
AFRICAN STUDENTS ASSOCIATION). This student’s body organizes elections on
yearly basis. Office bearers are elected all over India and their duty is to get in touch
with the Embassy in Delhi or a consular office in Mumbai.
It is also the responsibility of the KASA officials to be in touch with the local law
agenciesin India likethe policein caseof problems.Mostly when the Embassyofficials
are not within reach, KASA officials do try to sort out all the issues if they can fall
within their jurisdiction.
However, KASA elections across India are often marred with ethnicity and chaos.
There are cases when students had resorted to violence when a candidate of their
choice is probably rigged out. At times even the Indian police had to be called in
whenever the situation went out of control. It is just a typical Kenyan way of doing
things.
For the Kenyan girls, studying in India might turn out to be likethat of cat and mouse.
Most of them come from Kenya without any life exposureand they end up destroying
their lives miserably. The good news is that the majority of girls do try to finish their
studies and go back home though some cases have emerged in the past where some
derailed in one way or the other.
However, studying in India hasn’t come that easy for the girls because of the tight
rope they had to walk on each day. As I mentionedabove, the Kenyan girls go to India
while very young, aggressive and ready to conquer the sky as others normally claim.
The first challenge is how to cope with the studying environment and the general
lifestyle in India; they also find themselves absolutely free and independent without
anyone watching their back.

They are faced with the task of managing their financial status, an explosive area
which has at times proved to be quite tricky in a way. A single independent Kenyan
girl would wish to receive constant flow of cash, though that might be impossible in
India. First and foremost, the remittance from parents or sponsors doesn’t reach in
time and that has led to many girls undergoing a cute stress and depression.
As the Kenyan girls settle down for studies in India, the issue of having a boyfriend
chips in. Of course nobody can stop a Kenyan girl from having relations with the
opposite sex because they are their own guardians. For that, there will always be
several takers on standby- meaning the boys. A Kenyan girl in India normally has
varietiesof boys to choosefrom, ranging from the Kenyan boysthemselves,Nigerians,
Tanzanians and even Indians for t what has in the past been referred to as a change of
diet.
These boys would promise our sisters a full moon. Most of the girls are lured with the
prospect of marriage after the completion of studies and a constant flow of capital
which often dries up in India. They would not hesitate to join hands with any African
man as long as his wallet doesn’t dry up easily. This has made life quite complex for
most of them (our sisters) studying in India.
In most cases, they would be convinced by their boyfriends to put up together with
them with the hope of sharing rents and other cost of living. It is a common tend in
India and one can easily come across many girls staying with their boyfriends or
lovers in the same room. In fact it has been described by most Kenyans as temporary
marriage arrangements made in India. or “VALID FOR INDIAN ONLY AFFAIR.” It
has no guarantee and can collapse anytime depending on the prevailing
circumstances.
Because of the money power, the Nigerian men have ended up securing chunks of
Kenyan girls for themselves. They (Nigerian) men can pour in money on any Kenyan
beauty and they always succeed, It is true that most Nigerian men are always happy
when having a girl friend from Kenya. Due to constant crackdown on illicit narcotic
drugs by the Indian Law enforcement agencies, having a Kenyan girl can at times be
a huge blessing.
There are some few past incidences when Kenyan men and their Nigerian
counterparts had to resort to physical confrontation over girls. The Kenyan men have
in the past accused them of misusing their sisters. For the Nigerian men, they have
often described the Kenyan men as too poor to maintain their women in India.
The common phrase still circulating a cross India is that the Nigerian men once
referred to the Kenyan men as “the fifty paisa boys.” That was uttered some decades
back at a football match in Chandigarh between Kenyan and Nigerian students. A
major fight ensued thereafter and the Chandigarh police had to be called in to quell
the warring parties. Still the Nigerian men have always had an upper hand over the
Kenyan boys particularly when it comes to owning their sisters from Kenya.

Any Kenyan girl having a relationship with a Nigerian man has no choice but to
emulate their trends and whatever they are so ordered to do. It doesn’t matter the
consequences, but the Kenyan girl must be ready to be a Nigerian wife until that time
or day when her serviceswill no longer be required. That is how most of the girls from
Kenya in the company of Nigerian men have found themselves in the drug net a
business cartel which the West African friends have an upper hand.
A number of girls too have ended up having babies with the Nigerian men probably
to have that ticket of settling in Kenya in the coming future. That is basically the secret
behind these West African gangs having been able to confuse the Kenyan girls. Once
a girl has had a baby with a Nigerian man, it will be very easy for them to shift their
so called business base to Kenyan cities like Mombasa, Nairobi or Kisumu.
The moment a Kenyan girl is with is with a Nigerian man, chances are that she can
easily be lured into the drug trafficking business; Nobody is likely to suspect an
innocent young Kenyan girl to be having such a high leveldrug link businesswith the
Nigerians. For the Nigerian man Kenyan girl is a prime catch or a good catch at the
same time. She is also a blessing so to say.
For the Kenyan girls staying with their Kenyan boyfriends, life is always a daily
struggle. The first pressure often comes on studies and how to maintain each other.
Again comes the financial constrains which at times even lead to breakups and fights.
There are past cases where Kenyans girls have been killed by knifed by their
boyfriends.
Becausemost girls staying with their spousesmay not be ready to have babies in India
considering the psychological impact involved, they mostly carry out an abortion.
This has to be done because chances of being married by a roommate in India are
almost nil. It is an exercise which has left most of our sisters studying in India
psychologically beaten and mentally disturbed
Few girls, who tried to raise babies in India while studying, have had a total
nightmare. The problem is that the resources are not enough to maintain a child in a
country like India. This is followed by the adverse climatic conditions in India which
require one to have facilities like coolers, Air conditioners or room heaters.
By and large, Kenyan students have managed to put up a brave face against all odds.
In the process of studying in India, some students became lucky in establishing true
relationship and finally ended up in Kenya as wife and husband. Whatever the
circumstances, such couples are proving a point that marriages made in India can still
work once back in the country.
Kenyans try their best to enjoy good relationship with each other despite the ethnic
differences. That however doesn’t mean all is well among students because their
approach and style of doing things are totally different. Some keep to themselves and
don’t intermingle easily for reasons known purely to them.

The general student community remains a happy lot and some have pulled out their
colleagues from going down the pit. This has been seen during crisis like sickness,
deaths and even during financial meltdown. In situations like that, Kenyans have
displayed a high level of solidarity, putting aside their ethnic differences.
To assist each other in India help can emerge from unique quarters especially among
African from other counties as well. Even the host Indians has come to the rescue of
some Kenyans in difficult times. There are cases where even Nigerian students have
raised funds to assista Kenyan during financial crisis. It isa form African brotherhood
meaning that not all African students are just after misusing their fellow brothers or
sisters.
The African brotherhood can at times be visible among a section of students. One
would come across students from Ghana, South Africa, Togo, Congo and even
Somalia etc trying their best to understand the unique problems facing the black
community in a foreign land and even assist them.
PART 3
STUDIES, CHALLENGES AND HOW INDIA BECAME A FAVORITE
DESTINATION
The main purpose of Kenyan students going to India is purely studies. Other things
that might crop up in between are secondary since all their strength and resources are
channelled only on studies.The naivety of a Kenyan sponsoring a student is that India
being hardship area, they could perhaps complete their studies in time and head back
home. That is a belief harboured even by parents who send their sons and daughters
to India for further studies. The fact that any foreign student who goes to India easily
gets admission at Indian Universities doesn’t mean that all could well all through. It
is because they deserve such admissions because they to be admitted due to their
qualifications. Whoever meets the requirements will always be admitted and the fact
that they bring with huge foreign revenues is another boom.
There are some basic facts which foreign students going to India to study ought to
know like the criteria of admissions and the type of admission. It is no doubt that
Indian Universities have quite a significant progress in various faculties like
Technology, Traditional subjects of Arts and humanity. The expansion of knowledge
is rapidly growing at the Universities and after the IT boom, the attention is now
shifting to medicine and nursing courses.
It is a move by the Government to promote the needs and aspirations to fundamental
education and research to both local and foreign students. The Universities across
India are divided into two categories, known as the unitary and affiliating. A few
Universities which are confined to a single campus include Aligarh Muslim

University, Banaras Hindu University, Mysore and Jawaharlal Nehru University.
However what foreign students need to know about these Universities is that the
affiliating Universities are the common in India. Almost all affiliating Universities
have a control campus followed by several affiliated colleges.
Most Universities in India are funded by the UGC (University Grand Commission).
The central Universities also get full support from the Government of India while
other funds also come from the Indian council of Agricultural and the All India
Council of Technical Education. The main aim of the UGC is to ensure that all
Universities across India offer competitive courses and career based. The fact that
foreign students travel to India for study purposesisthat these Universities have been
expanding their co-operation and friendship to them and even their respective
countries. Ever since the Indian founder or father of the Nation Mahatma Gandhi
stepped into the African soil through South Africa and initiated democratic reforms
in that country during apartheid era, India thereafter established a special link with
the developing world.
In fact, India has been assisting developing countries with knowledge and
empowerments. There is almost no developing country whose nationals are not
studying in India. It is just that India is out to assist such nations since the future of a
nation depends on how knowledgeable its people are. With the influx of foreign
students, India has been its campuses quite rapidly. A good example is the rapid
expansion of the third categories of Universities and Institutions which include the
Birla Institute of Technology, the All India Institute of Medical sciences(AIMS) and
the Post Graduate Institute of Medical Research(PGI), based in Chandigarh.
Such Institutions are vital in the sense that they offer technical and professional
courses at undergraduate and post graduate level. Foreign students from different
parts of the globe have been studying in these Institutions since time memorial. The
bulk of these students are however from developing countries like Kenya, Vietnam,
Sudan, and Uganda and as far as Guyana etc. It is a sign that the Indian education is
growing as most of these Institutions continue to admit foreign students in bulk. But
the study doesn’t come on a silver plate since foreign students tend to pay more fees
for a professional course compared to the locals. The reasons being that they are
foreigners they are foreigners and they could be having a huge stock of Dollars with
them. There is no question of middle class, rich or poor African students in the eye of
an Indian because in the eye of an Indian, foreign student is rich and therefore should
pay more. It an attitude which foreign students have lived with for over a decade and
the situation is likely to remain so. The notion in India is that foreign all foreign
students perhapscome from rich cultural background and they ought not to complain
even if they are overcharged.
Nearly all Universities and colleges are ready to assist all foreign students as long as
one meets the admission requirements. Hardly do we come across cases where a
foreign student has been denied admission at the Indian Universities. The
administration would be glad with a multi-cultural academic atmosphere within its

soil. What matters is having all the necessary requirements where the concerned
student isseekingadmission.Once all the admissionprocedureis fullycompletedand
the University satisfied, a student can start classes as usual.
After all, foreign nationals are basically in India for study purpose apart from the
diplomat community representing their countries and those working with
multinationals. It is just of late the Indian Government has cancelled all the study
arrangement for the diplomatsworking in India for reasons which stillremain unclear
to the diplomatic community.
Transportation network to and from most Universities and colleges are also easily
available. Students can reach their colleges or Universities with ease either through
private means or local buses. Other means of transport in India are the Rickshaws,
trains, metros and bikes etc. They are said to be easily available and affordable even
though foreign students shouldget ready for being overcharged. It is a practice which
the Indian people have protested against but to no avail as both manual and auto
rickshaws go for a kill, a game which foreign students find unbearable. African
students travellingto India to pursuefurther studiesshouldbe preparedto adjustinto
a new kind of life. They seemto be entering into a new zone which can only be termed
as “a no man’s land. “Lifeat the Indian Institutions of higher learning isn’t that smooth
for foreign students especially beginners considering the Indian lukewarm attitude
towards black people. The Indians are yet to intermingle with have deep mistrust
towards an Africans whom they still believe is dangerous and may be a criminal.
The first complex and challenging task that comes on the way as foreign students get
admissions across Indian Universities is the communication barrier. In India, people
mostly speak Hindi and English has never been given such a high regard over the
past decade. Some professors ever prefer lecturing in Hindi despite the presence of
foreign students. It quite unfortunate for some Indian students who all along, were
discouragedfrom studying English. Some teachers had in the past misledthe students
by associating the English language with neo-colonialism. The only way an Indian
had to show his patriotism to his or her motherland was by totally disregarding the
English language. As the dawn of the 21st century settles in, such students have found
themselves totally misplaced as they can hardly converse with foreign students and
even extract constructive or positive ideas from them.
Language barrier is rampant in India and students from foreign nations have had hell
of time trying to adjustwith it. A simpleideamight take an Indian along time to digest
or understand more so if they are from a deep Hindi speaking background. A
Ugandan student once boarded a wrong bus which took him the wrong direction at a
crucial time when his exams were about to commence. The only language which the
conductor perhaps knew was” no problems please, sit and go. For the Kenyan
students who prefer hostels accommodations, lifehas been quite a challenge for them.
All students have to rely solely on food served in the hostel mess, unless one brings
his or her own eatables from outside. The University prohibits cooking in the hostel

as the room are first small and are only meant for studies. The worry thing is the
Indian food which is purely, full of chilly and unexplained quantity of spices. Most
African students are not used to such kind of food, even though some Universities
have tried to providecertain mealswith lessoiland chilly.The food cultureis different
and one has to cope with how it has been prepared. What matters is the consumption
of too much oil, too much chilly or spices and let live.
As students poured into the sub-continent for studies, they are always expected to
adjust as fast as they can and start what they were sent to do, that is studies. After
landing at Airports across India and Mumbai especially, a student is expected to
report at their respective Universities and register. It is to make it easy for such
Universities to know how many foreign students have reported. The issue of
settlement then starts immediately with some students going for private
accommodation while others opt for hostels. Comparatively hostel facilities offered
are still better and one would recommend such a place for a foreign student. The
hostels have got such a good study environment and room rentals are one of the
cheapest in the world. The foreign students will have to just follow rules and
regulations laid down by the authorities. Those being accommodated in hostels are
also required to prove to the authorities that they are serious with their studies. In
other words, anyone staying in hostels should study and pass exams.
It is also very easy for any student to be locked out of the hostels premises if one
doesn’t study well.This is not only limitedto foreign studentsbut to the local students
as well.That is one aspectof University regulationsthat studentsusing hostelfacilities
ought to work in studies. Whatever the peace or comfort which the hostel offers, it is
up to foreign students to handle themselves with utmost care as they may be the most
watched or monitored. Indians are yet to adjust with foreign students especially from
Africa who have faced due to their color and background. There aren’t times which
the African students haven’t been harassed and sexually intimidated. The mind of an
Indian is still clouded with the fact that an African girl is always available. An African
man on the other hand is considered dangerous, wild and Indians girls are always
advised to keep away from them. The terminology used for black people goes by the
name “absis”, meaning one with dark looks or a black man from Africa,
Such type of misconception isn’t only with the Africans but even fellow Indians are
not spared either. Indians abuse and harass their fellow country men or women much
more and even on daily basis. This is attributed to the fact that India is still a
conservative society where boy/girl relationship is considered an abominable act and
it is forbidden by the society. Indian boys and girls in any relationship have to keep it
to themselves or remain totally secretive lestthey are disowned or even brutally killed
by the society. Such barbaric act has been termed by the Indian media as honour
killing, where a daughter or son who refuses to tore the line or follow the societal
norms is ostracized, killed or at times expelled from the community. The Indian
community from the North East on the other hand leads a totally different lifestyle.

They have maximum freedom and can interact easily with fellow students and they
connect with the Africans whom they referred to as their “lost brothers and sisters.”
It is because of being open and leading a different lifestyle that made the Indian
community not to trust students from the north east. Due to rampant ignorance in the
Indian society, they are often mistaken to be Chinese and have been nicknamed as
“chinkies” by the Indians. Even their eating habits have come under scanner as most
Hindus who claim to be the true followers of Hindu sect refuse to give them
accommodation. Such landlords believe that those students from the North eastern
part of the country who are their own city citizens eat dogs, snakes, lizards’ buffaloes
and even cows, considered by most Hindus as a sacred animal.
Once some Manipur students were thrown out of an apartment by an angry landlord
whose pet dog had gone missing.With most Indians harbouring strong belief that dog
meat is part of their delicacies; the landlord believed that they might have consumed
his dearly loved pet dog. For the Nigerians and Kenyan students who were the
neighbours of the Manipur students, their plight turned to be more serious. His
immediate neighbour has just warned him against accommodating Africans because
they bare cannibals, drug dealers and could even eat his children with time.
As they(the African student were preparing to go to collegefor their morning lectures,
the worried landlord locked up his apartment and told them to vacate his premises.
Incidences like that do occur in India and foreign students pursuing higher education
in that countries are likely to encounter them. One can’t just stop going to India for
further studies because of a mistaken identity and there is no justification of it all. For
the foreign students, it is always a struggle allthrough and there can never have peace
unless otherwise. If one issue is fully tackled, another one is likely to emerge soon
after, meaning that a foreign student doing his/her studies in India should always be
on toes.
Any African student studying in India must put up with such pressure. The type of
abuse and name calling they often experience day in, day out is a part of life in the
Indian society. The female students from foreign nations are an easy target because of
the misconstrued information that pertainsto their lifestyle.It is believedinthe Indian
societythat an African girl can easilymade her availablefor sex. As long asone doesn’t
watch out, any African girl might fall a victim of illegal confinement, rape and even
murder. What parents who send their siblings to India for further studies expect from
is goodperformance in class. Theyare expectedto study whatever the prevailingcrisis
in India.
The plight of students is at their own hands, so none understands what they undergo
on daily basis. From the time a student lands in India for studies, until the end of the
course, they are often left with deep psychological trauma that might refuse to go
away. It is saidthat students whom have studiedin Indian Universitiesrequire special
counselling once they go back to their respective countries. The life they have
experience throughout their stay in India could permanently destroy their

psychological wellbeing if not checked in advance. The majority of foreign students
go back to their respective countries after studies with their faces full of rage and
bitterness.
More than ten years ago, a Kenyan student was pushed off a moving train and he
eventuallylost his arm in the tragedy. Even at that time of crisis, it took for the student
to be rescuedfrom the accident scene.The reason being that railway officialsand those
who came for the rescue operations were too afraid to touch a black skin which they
associate with the entire bad omen. Tragedies involving African students are often
not taken seriouslybythe authoritiesand they tend to wash off their hands. India after
all is a land of colors with numerous complex issues to tackle on daily basis and one
African problem which they believe is an isolated incidence cannot be given much
priority. But African students would still find India better to study in comparison to
certain parts of Europe and the Arab world.
Across Russia and Germany, a group of people known as skin heads have declared
total war on Africans and Asians or those they believe are not whites. For the skin
head who believe in the fundamental value of Adolf Hitler, it is such great privilege
and honour to kill someone with a dark skin or Africans for that matter. Cases of hate
crime towards African students are not so common in India though isolated
incidences are not ruled out. They can as well be a target depending on the location of
the victim and time. The only fact which guards the conscience of most Indians is that
a guest in the Indian society is considered as “a god”, and should not be messed up
with lest the wraths of the mighty come down heavily on them.
As per the Indian Law, a foreign student is expected to go for HIV/AIDS test despite
having undergone similar process from their respective countries. Once the test is
done and the result proved negative, a student then proceed to register with the
foreign registration office, famously known as the FRO (foreign registration office).
That is the office where the data of all foreigners visiting India are kept whether
students, business community, tourists etc are kept. The daunting task before parents
from the developingcountrieswhose sons and daughters are studyingin India is their
maintenance and upkeep.Alsoworrisome is the future wellbeing of the students who
are said to be pursuing higher learning in one of the place believed to be a hot plate
zone. It is by the law of the land that anyone sending a student to India should
guarantee his or her own success more so financially and safety. What makes India
such a hostile place to study isn’t that the Indians are bad people but how its people
discriminate against foreign students through some non-draconian existing laws.
Those going to India for studies are on student visas and are not allowed to work
anywhere in India. That means that the only source of financial breakthrough should
come from the sponsors. Parents or sponsors have to bear all the cost and that isn’t
been quite easy.
Almost all those sending their siblings to India for studies believed that it is a cheap
and affordable country to study at. This is likea myth that hasn’t gonedown wellwith

most sponsors or parents as the economic meltdown of some countries take an ugly
turn. The ugly turn comes about when sponsors delay with the monthly quarterly
remittance. An Indian version of things is that a foreign student is rich and theirs
should only be on how to spend the money.
There is no way an Indian will listen to a foreign student whose money has delayed,
that to them is un heard of. To mention to any landlord or land lady that money has
delayed and rent can’t be paid on time, is simply inviting wrath which might cause
untold mental break down on the concerned student. Such cases are totally unknown
to the sponsors who believed that an Indian is likely to understand the plight of a
foreigner. It is still a fact that an emerging materialistic country like would entertain
nothing other than money.
When Kenya faced the worst economic crisis back in the 90’s during the so called
golden berg saga, it came with its own ups and downs for students studying in India.
Those were sad for the East African Nation as its nationals failedto copewith the hard
changing economic times. Some parents simply stopped sending money to their
children as the Kenyan currency lost half of its value against major currencies around
the world, more so the rupees. The money reaching students from their sponsors was
way far too meagre to cope with the rise of living cost in India. It was said to have
been the beginningof the darkest hour among Kenyan students abroad, more so India
where students had no means of earning a living other than remittance from those
who sent them to India. Middle families whose sons and daughters were studying in
India failed to cope with the sudden unprecedented economic change. It affected the
students a great directly as their lives in India took an ugly turn. Some students are
said to have automatically suspendedtheir studiesand went into a completeoblivion.
Others were thrown out of colleges, hostels and premises as they could not pay their
arrears
In such a quagmire, there was nowhere the students could turn to considering the fact
in India, money talks really loud. Without it, you are like a low class and can be
subjected to deep psychological pains and sufferings. It is said that a couple of
students received letters from their sponsors reminding about the lack of resources to
further their studies. Perhaps those were the dark days when the plight of anguish
among Kenyan students emerged in a big way. As the situation grew grimmer and
grimmer. Most students who had no means of lively hood resorted to over drinking
and recklessness. Others resorted to extreme violent behavior and not a single day
could pass without a fight being registered among fellow students. Knowing too well
that such students were not getting any means of lively hood from their parents or
sponsors, Indians too tightened their belts while others lowered the curtain on the
Africans. In one of the most humanitarian disaster of its kind, a Kenyan student was
spotted at an Indian slum in Haryana state in a deplorable situation. It is not known
how long he had lived in such a condition but most likely more than a year or two.
Fellow Kenyan students made managed to help him out before other arrangements

for him to be flown home could be made. He claimed that his parents cut links with
him after two years of his studies in India. His brother who was meant to send him
money for studiesand up keepalso severed ties with him for reasons he couldnot tell.
The best thing he coulddo without bothering anyone was to accommodate himself on
the footpath, just like the homeless people of India live.
And outsideafamous eatery joints in Central Mumbai frequented by foreign students,
a Tanzanian national was spotted literary begging. This is a common trend in India
more those who adopt begging as a means of survival. On the other hand, when it
happens to a young African student in India, one’s heart can go bleeding. Cases of
students being left on their own in India by their parents or sponsors, are a common
phenomenon. It has happened to students from Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Nigeria
and other developing countries. It is unfortunate to see people, parents or sponsors
washing their hands off from the siblings they have struggled to raise.
At a meeting with some Kenyan students in the Kenyan High commission, the then
High Commissioner and a long serving civil servant, was categorical when warned
such parents or sponsors deserved persecution by the State. He termed it as inhuman
and illegal for a parent to abandon a sibling in India, a land with so many problems
of its own. What has emerged over the past years is that some parents or sponsors
were never interested in ensuring the smooth studies of their children India. It came
to light that somesent their siblingsto India for disciplinarymeasuresbecause the son
or daughter had gone out of control. The aftermath never proved positive or
worthwhile as such trial and errors led to more pain and mental breakdown.
The most unfortunate thing is leaving a student to fend for himself or herself in India
knowing very well the situations prevailing in the country, but more so when the
concerned student is struggling to study. Such happenings are quite numerous and
a few isolated cases still take placed in India. A Kenyan girl found herself stranded in
no man’s land when her father who sent her for studies backed out and went
underground. The father believed to be coming from a wealthy background by
Kenyan standard, simplydecidedto abandon his daughter for reasons none could tell
nor figure out. She was given a warm send off at JKIA (Jommo Kenyatta International
Airport), in such an electrifying mood and full of enthusiasms. What happened after
she landed in India was beyond her understanding.
For three or four years of her stay in India struggling with a B.sc degree, life to her
turned into a burning hell. Having managed to finish her studies and came back to
Kenya and luckilysecuring a job, she might as well put all that behind her but the scar
might not go away anytime soon. Education experts and other think tanks from
developing countries, now feel that students who have studied in India require a
different approach. They need guidance and counselling and immediately getting
absorbed into the main stream of nation building before things go out of hand for

them. Unfortunately that is not the case as such students go back to their respective
countries, nobody cares and they face the brunt of unemployment. They are expected
to struggle and secure jobs just like any other ordinary citizen or students who have
just joined the job searching market.
There is nothing so painful to a student like being abandoned in a foreign land
especially India. It appears like insanity of the highest order but it is also hard to
neither pinpoint exactly what transpired nor find out whose mistake that could be.
Somehow Africans still in a society the majority cannot be taken to task by the law of
the land when they simply walked away from their children. An African is said to be
a struggler from the date of birth until the end of time unless one becomes successful
and again shuts his or her doors on others could due to revenge.
That is unlike the Indians where a person is considered a child and should be taken
care of until death through the joint family system. Though the blame game likely to
continue for many years to come, the challenge before African parents are dwindling
resources and lack of future planning for the well being of their siblings. The worst
affected African students according to experts are those who hail from polygamousor
large extended families. An ordinary civil servant with three wives in Kenya or
Uganda is likely to abandon a son or a daughter in any part of the world, leave a lone
India as the cost of living sky rocketed and meagre income also dwindles.
What takes place in polygamous families is nothing other than scrambling for wealth.
The wife whose son or daughter is not studyingabroad is likelyto vehemently oppose
the idea of pumping money into a child who is not her own. Critical analysts are of
the opinion that most students abandoned in India are from large families. As the
women struggle to snatch wealth from the husband, their kids are the ones to suffer
especiallythosebeingeducated abroad.Those studyingin the developedworld might
pull both strings and eventually come out of the deadly mess their counterparts from
India may never make it. In developing country, men still believe in the polygamous
ways of life. Having more women and children was once considered a prestige
perhaps going by the prevailing economic conditions at the time. This is the reality in
most parts of Africa and the Arab world. There is hardly any home where you won’t
find any dozens of children wives. Most women are often left to survive on their own
economically and hence opening doors to other social evils in the society.
It is an environment like that where children would later found themselves
scavenging for survival on their own even if sent abroad for studies. There is no
guarantee that it might not happen again later in life when a child requires to build
his/her own future or career. Cases of parents and sponsorstotally ignoring their own
blood after sending them overseas are still part and parcel of social problems that still
engulfedthe developingsocieties.Themoment the wives start to stresstheir husbands
over the dwindling economic resources, it is their children who are likely to suffer.

There would emerge a clash of opinions as each house demands for its own economic
package from a husband whose income had never been adjusted to cope with the
rising cost of living. Students sent to India study and at the same time coming from
such families, are likely to face severe financial difficulties. It is situations of that
nature which have driven many studentsfrom developingcountriesstudying in India
out of colleges. Sometimes back in 1994-95, a Kenyan student from a wealth family
found himself in a condition similar to that. Money to educate him in India wasn’t a
problem but the fact that his father was a polygamous man, did him in. His many
wives begun to take sidesas someopenly opposedthe idea of sending money to a boy
in India who was not their own blood while some initiated a dangerous move to
destabilize the economic status of the husband.
This is an issue that has continued unchecked over the past decades as the respective
governments tend to wash off their hands. The governments from developing nations
have remained unmoved by the plight of their nationals who have been abandoned
in India. That is what the Nigerians, Tanzanians, Ugandans and Kenyans have
experienced over the years. There is no extra budget by such governments allocated
for their nationals who have been abandoned in India by the parents or sponsors who
sent them there. The search for survival has pushed the Africans to seek shelter in one
of the most unhealthy, filthy conditions ever.
A few could be spotted at the railway platforms, bus stands, footpaths and open
public parks. Some still found their ways into the Indian temples where food is freely
served and temporary accommodations offered. There is nothing the Indian
government can do to help such students since cases involving foreign nationals are
mostly tricky and complex.
Some years ago, a group of Africans probably students had camped at an adjoining
empty park not far away from collaba, a favourite shopping area within central
Mumbai. Their country of origin wasn’t clear though most of them had claimed to be
Tanzanians. How they landed in such a miserablestate appearedmysteriousand even
how they entered India.
They took shelter at an open park with no basic amenities like food, water, toilets and
clothing. Perhaps it could turn to be a case 0f human trafficking which is quite
rampant in most third world societies. It is said that a ship on its way to the far East
dropped them off the shores of Indian waters where they were apprehended by the
Coastal guards. With no proper identification papers to prove their nationalities, the
authorities had no choice but to detain them but at the same time nowhere to take
them. To meet both ends, they resorted to begging and that was the end of a journey
of a journey to the Promised Land. On the streets, they were joined by fellow Africans
who had been thrown out by the angry Indian landlords for failing to pay their rent
on time. For the first time in the history of Independence India, Africans had to turn

to food scavengers in a foreign land. Such events were taking place at India’s financial
capital known as the city of fame and skyrocketed stock exchange, A foreign student
stranded in India could resort to any means of survival, leave alone spending nights
on the footpaths. It is a common practice for the halve notes to literary lower their
dignity and resort begging.
The Indian authorities on the other hand are used to such plights hence remained
unmoved by the plight of an African stranded on its soil.The best the government can
do is to regroup them under the low caste category and move on. That brings us to
the bigger picture of on how stranded students from developing countries struggle in
India struggle to earn a living in hostile world. For that matter, they are likely to be
treated with a lot of suspicion as the Indian society still have a lot of question marks
regarding the Africans or those with dark skin.
For those students whose HIV/AIDS results might turn out to be positive, they are
likely to face problems with the Indian authorities. In most cases they are expelled
from the country or if lucky some bribe their way through and continue with their
studies. That has always been the beginning of a harrowing experience for most
foreign students coming to India for studies. The worst are the black African students
who have or had to pay so dearly for their color.
Other students who have passedthe AIDS/ test register with the Foreign Registration
Office and respective colleges or Universities. They are then free to resume their
studies and it is up to them to manage the rest of the challenges. Their movements are
not being monitored and Kenyan students have had the opportunity to visit different
corners of India.
A Kenyan student going to India is expected to cope with all sorts of shortcomings.
What is expected of them is nothing but success, the only language a Kenyan parent
or sponsor wouldlove to hear. Of course they do try to achieve the impossiblemission
while others get stacked in the mud. The rest of the students do stagger on but still
run up to the finishing line.
What those sending their kids to India didn’t know is that the vast country is another
world. It is a country where life is quite challenging indeed and the Host Indians find
themselves strangers in their mother land. It is in India where one can come across
cannabis growing openly in fields and at times is cooked as vegetables in some states.
As the Kenyan students begin to adjust with the Indian environment, they find
themselves utterly free and they end up going out of control. A few have got lost into
the smoke of cannabis or ‘bangi” as it is referred to in Swahili.
The students body have in the past described it as the true African weed that is “god
given” It is from here that some Kenyan students got addicted to heavy cannabis
smoking, hence losing track on what they went to in India, that is studies. They could

the wild green bang leaves from any field, take it to their rooms and dry them under
the fans.
From there the weed would dry up and the brothers and sisters therefore commenced
the smoking. The room where Kenyans smoke cannabis is mostly stuffy as the doors
and windows are locked to prevent the smell from spreading. As the weed get into
their brains or nerves after doing what they referred to as the natural charge, one can
witness tears streaming down their cheeks
The cannabis make these students cry as they retrospect on the life the late king of
reggae BOBMARLEYand the lateEthiopian KingHail Selassie. As they bear the brunt
of the Indian summer under the noisy rotating fan, they would listen to reggae, talk
politics and in the process denounce their country Kenya as a territory being ruled by
the so called ‘the tribal royal family.”
The lucky part of it is that no law enforcement agency can interfere with the Kenyan
students who are smokingcannabis comfortably in their rooms. The policeconsidered
it to be a personal lifestyle as long as the neighbours haven’t raised any complaints.
Secondly arresting somebodywith it might not have a solidground in the Indian court
of law. Due to that the Kenyan students in the act would smoke the green weed
without any hassle and eventually go down the drain if not monitored.
That is what we call a new chapter in any Kenyan student’s life as the study life begins
in India. It is a life full of ups and downs though quite a number of students have
made it and returned home after successfully completing their studies. Some students
on the other hand become mentally and psychologically imbalanced, hence loosing
the much needed concentration power in studies
A few years back, a couple of students had to be repatriated by their parents as they
had become mentally unfit to study. That hasn’t been very easy to figure out what
could have gone wrong but in a country like India such happenings are a common
occurrence. Still it can be narrowed down to a student being unable to cope with a
new life, a new culture and a new beginning in life.
There are some students who with time realize that they have so much time and
freedom. The next episodeis how to manage the two with studies.As usual,a Kenyan
student is expected to deliver, no matter what come their way.
The majority of students who come or have been coming to India fail to notice that
studying in the sub-continent might be similar to other part of the world. The notion
has always been that studying in India is easy and even the exams are easy to pass.
Some forget they were coming to India for a University degree and nothing belowthat
Taking studies in India for granted has cost many Kenyans so dearly to the point
where the situation is irreversible. Time lost in India is gone forever and never can it

be restored back. Due to the common belief that a student at Indian University cannot
fail his or her exams more especially a Kenyan, they stumble and fail. It marks a new
turn in a student’s life as some just can’t cope with the tragedy.
What follows from such students who fail to make it in exams is to develop a new
defence mechanism. In most cases they convey to their parents or sponsors that they
are studying and perhaps winding up their course or courses while the reality on the
ground is different. They might have stopped studying many months or years back,
but a sponsor may not know it.
There are parents or sponsors who keep remitting funds to their sons and daughters
without knowing the exact progress on their studies. Year after year, such students
would hoodwink their sponsors back in Kenya that all is well in their study line only
to discover the opposite after a long soul searching. That is the students’ survival
tactics and other Kenyans studying in different parts of the world do practice it as
well.
This piece of lies about studies perhaps appears simple for students doing it but the
eventual consequences might be too strong to bear in the long run. The worst victims
in this scenarioare the sponsors or parents who couldfeel cheated by their own blood.
No parent would even imagine that a child they have struggledto raise couldhide the
truth of that magnitude from them.
Sadly that is the reality across India and perhaps some other parts of the world where
Kenyans are dotted in pursuit of knowledge. Those caught in the middle of this
tragedy are the parents who feel they have an obligation to educate their children.
There are sponsors who have washed off their hands completely from those they sent
to India for studies many years back. Some students have been presumed dead yet
they are alive and struggling with life the Indian way, perhaps living on the footpaths
or in some Indian ghettos.
There are students who lost direct contacts with their parents or sponsors many years
ago. It is like a kind of blame game going on since both sides have their own different
sides of the story. The version varies from student to student and sponsor to sponsor,
making the truth behind the whole affair remain mysterious. Since nobody is in touch
with the sponsor, the truth in the whole drama might never be known.
The moment a student is abandoned by parents or the sponsors in India, it marked
the beginning of a new chapter in a person’s life. First of all such students are likely to
develop a major mental or psychological break down. Since studies are no longer part
of their agenda, the lifesuch studentsare likelyto lead isthat of survival for the fittest.
A new game plan is borrowing money from Indians and fellow Kenyans and failing
to pay back. The moment depts. accumulate, means that the affected student may not
be able to pay back. In that case the hunts for another greener pasture begin. They end
upon traveling from one state to another stilldependingon money borrowed from the

host people the Indians and fellow Kenyans.
It is a life with neither tail nor head because its destiny remains quite unpredictable.
The moment a Kenyan student can’t pay his or her depts., their most available option
is to avoid the place. They take months or even years to come into direct contacts with
their debtors hoping that the situation might have cooled down. Unfortunately
money matters are different and particularly in a country like India, more so when
borrowed from the host Indians.
It is for this reason that many victim Kenyan students would start moving from one
state to another, if that could ease the pressure. Of course fellow Kenyans always
welcome them considering the diverse cultural upbringing the students have had in
the past. The sorry part of it is that such students are in for a long game plan on how
to survive in a foreign land.
In such situations, the only thing in the mind of a struggling student is where the next
meal would come from. They can easily manage such lifestyle but at a heavy prize. It
means that their dignity, self-esteem and confidence have been compromised or
perhaps long gone. They are forced to invent several lies to stay alive and to win the
confidence of fellow Kenyans.
Long standing depts. have become a thorny issue among Kenyan students to such an
extent that none is willingto lendmoney to fellow brother or sisters.The reason is that
chances of getting such money back is unlikely particularly students who no longer
have any direct contacts with their sponsors or parents. This book is to focus at factors
that have contributed to the rise and even the fall of many students in India. A parent
when sending his or her siblings abroad should they be from a developing or
developed world, expects good returns. The dream for young stars to complete their
studies and go back to whichever countries they came or come from. This hasn’t been
easy as pain, anguish, disappointments as deaths and failures to return home creep
in. The Kenyan communities landed in India but were somehow not prepared to
handle the big psychological part of the extravaganza. That is why some students
managed to complete their studies within the shortest time period while others took
a long and the rest never made any head way. The book is trying to analyze what
happened or what has been happening with the Kenyan students in India. Of course
when departing from JKIA to India, the expectations were that nothing would never
go wrong. Some students blame recklessness, low morale, and lack of discipline, over
drinking and parties.
The book is based on how far the Kenyan students have gone in their quest for
knowledge, empowerment and economic independency in a country like India
described by as a hardship zone. As such the Kenyan family is now dotted in every
part of the world in an attempt to fulfil their dreams. It is a move that started prior to
and even after independence and has continued to cause such an eye brow across the
African continent and the rest of the world. It is up to every Kenyan to selecta country

of his or her own choice for further studies. Some landed in the Eastern bloc part of
the world like Russia, Germany etc while others proceeded to the U.S.A or other
western block regions. The majority of them are now key decision makers in the
private sectors and also in the Government. Being more adventurers, Kenyans
discovered India as a favourite destination for pursuing higher studies. That is why
no country in the world has continued to attract more students like India. For the past
twenty or thirty years, there has been a Kenyan student in nearly every Indian
Universities or colleges. However this hasn’t been easy for some students who landed
in India with higher expectations only to find their dreams pushed in the drains,
meaning that India as a country has been or a boom or a boon as some Kenyans and
other nationalities.
A closer relationship between India and African countries started quite early and can
be traced back during the migration times when people were looking or greener
pastures. The Indians on their part landed in East Africa during the colonialtimes and
later got involved in the construction of the famous East African Railways. As time
passedby, most of those Indians later found it difficult to go back to their mother land
and brought the first Asian settlement across East Africa. The majority of them
preferred to settle in Kenya as the country was already a head in terms of peace,
prosperity and good governance. Even when the former Ugandan president IDI
AMIN DADA expelled all the Asians in the country, the majority of them decided to
adopt Kenya as their homeland. Others left for Europe, the USA and South Africa.
Kenya now has a great number of Asian families in Africa and they are also
contributing the Economic stability in the country. As the relationshipbetween Kenya
and Kenya grew stronger, another tie in the education sector later emerged. It turned
out to be a milestone in the lives of Kenyans who landed in India for further studies.
The quest for studying in India started in the early sixties and the trend has remained
unstoppable
The ties between India and Kenya opened doors for many students who later
preferred India to other countries for pursuing higher education. The trend has
continued unabated as India too opens its doors for foreign students. Over the past
years, many Kenyans have continued to throng Indian Universities and colleges, and
the trend has boosted the good name of Indian Universities as their fame spread far
and wide. The first batch who studiedin India also recommendedthat country to their
relatives, sons and daughters. Since they succeeded in a country described by many
as hostile, they too expect a similar outcome from those they could send for further
studies. Such a high presence number of students from Kenya and other African
countries is said to be a major source of revenue to most Universities.
It remained hard to comprehend the factors behind a large number of students from
Kenya choosing India for pursuing higher studies. The main factor could be an
attempt to emulate what their relatives have achieved. Most think tank would still
pose and ask themselves as to why India. After all, there are thousand colleges and

Universities in their respective countries. Middle class Kenyans are said to have
settled on India as a place where their children could study. One main factor is
attributed to the welcoming gesture extended to the Kenyan community by the host
Indians. This has had a huge positive impact as parents realized the value of Indian
education. Students studying across India also took this advantage and encouraged
their brothers and sisters to pursue higher studies in India
Again courses offered at Indian Universities are also quite competitive and career
oriented. There are no major differences between courses offered in India and other
foreign universities. Some courses are even better and can provide one with an
opportunity to expand his or her potentiality. The Indian Government has also been
expanding some of the high level courses demanded by foreign students. Compared
to some countries which also offer similar courses, the Indian Universities fee
structure is also low. That’s why a Kenyan would rather prefer pursuing studies in
India than going to other countries. The mode of fee payment structure is also quite
flexible in the sense that there is no harassment of students who might have delayed
with the fees. There rare cases where a couple managed to do their exams despite not
paying the final installments. Such gestures are uncommon and cannot happen in
most countries. As Kenyans continue to search for Institutions where they could
pursue higher studies, India toped the chat. This is due to a better study environment
offered by Universities across India. Parents would rather save money and send their
children to Indi. The Universities that discovered the real benefits of having foreign
students in their Institutions also opened their doors. Having or admitting foreign
students is a considered a blessing to the concerned Universities Such students comes
with a huge amount of foreign revenues badly needed by most campuses. Students
not only go to India to learn but there is more benefit in all fronts like providing to the
country or Institutions the badly needed foreign currencies. Every country would
wish to have more foreign students at their Universities and that is a fact which the
Indian Government has positivelyexploited.Thisis a major exchange program meant
to foster closer interaction between foreign students and India.
It has been the strategy of the Kenyan Government to send its nationals to India to
acquire as much skills as possible. The Asian being one of the largest indigenous
community in Kenya today, has turned to be a successfulfolk in the country. Through
their art and skills,they have managedto be economicallypowerful in varioussectors
of the economy across the country. It is their success that might have forced the
Kenyan Government to send many of its nationals to India to master or discover their
survival skills. As such many Kenyan have continued to explore areas where the
Indian community seemed to have discovered success. That takes us to vital sectors
of the economy which are vital like medicines, Information Technology, Agriculture
and growth of the agro based industries. There was no way Kenyans could compete
with Asians in the areas they have fully mastered unless we study them from the
grassroots. That alone prompted many students to seek more advanced knowledge at
the Indian Universities. For some who managed to acquiresuch skillsin India, success
has probably been on their side. They are now challenging Asians in the vey key

sectors which they were once good at. That is why the business skills have been
expanding on equal terms with that of the Asian community.
There is no doubt that India will continue to be a favourite destination for those who
wish to pursue higher studies in the Asian country. All could be due to the historical
factors that still bind the two nations together, that are Kenya and India. It is in India
where the British colonizedand livedfor more than two centuries. Again it isin Kenya
where the British colonial government occupied and even considered it as a part of
their homeland. Such historical factors have had a lot of influence in the social
structure of the two nations.
The British ensured that in almost all the countries they colonized, a particular code
of educationstandard had to be adopted.Their main aim was to providean education
standard which apart from serving their interests could make them (the British)
intermingle easily with the local community. This is such a gainful historical bond
which Kenya and India would later found themselves in centuries later. The main
impact is the type of education which the British later left behind in the two countries.
Kenyans found it easy to study in Indian Institutions because similar pattern of
learning is also being provided at home. The medium of teaching is English, a
procedure which had been introduced and also enforced by the British colonial
Government.
The first batch of Kenyans who went to India to study discovered the value of its
education style. A few ministers and other prominent personalities who studied in
India earlier opened doors for their sons, daughters, relatives etc. They simply
established a good and cordial relationship with the local people something which
gave Kenyans a very good image. Because of that the Indian family found it easy to
dealwith the African family especiallyfromKenya. Such cordialrelationshipbetween
Kenya and India earlier years had such a positive impact on the lives between the
people from the two communities. It is said that the Indians found it easier to deal or
interact with the African students much better than their fellow country man or
woman. The purposeofKenyans visiting India was to study within a given time frame
or period. They never had time to argue with the Indian people unnecessarily nor
engage them in unwanted verbal exchanges. Such attitude might have pleased the
Indian people. They reciprocated by inviting as many Kenyans as possible at their
Institutions of higher learning.
India is a country whose social and economic dimensions are business based. Its
powerful potentiality is attracting people from different parts of the world. That is
why a week hardly passes without seeing a Kenyan visiting India for one factor or the
other. Theirs is not only business but also carrying out research in areas such
education and technology. It is through such business contact that most Kenyans later
chose India as for pursuing higher education. India is basicallyan ancient country and
its civilization or prosperity is quite old compared to most countries in the world
today. The country has made significant progress in various sectors even education is

currently leading. The rapid expansion of quality education in higher Institutions is
one factor that made the majority of Kenyans to flock India for studies.
One former Indian leader who is worth mentioning is the late Prime Minister Rajiv
Gandhi. With his effort, he initiated the IT (Information Technology) sector
throughout India. His ideas might have been dismissed by many whom never had a
clear forecast in the future of the country India. Decades later and even after his death,
the country is now a head in the field of Information technology. Its progress has even
made the Americans to wake up and start readjusting in areas they once claimed as
their own. The booming Information technology came as a blessing to most
developing nations like Kenya. While the developed world made the going quite
difficult to study in their respective countries, India opened its doors. Kenyans being
fast in areas that pertain to acquiring knowledge and education grabbed this
opportunity. They (Kenyans), have been pursuing Education India without any
hindrance a factor that has made a difference in their lives as well careers,
The argument now is that why would students from countries like Kenya, Nigeria or
Tanzania prefer India. It is simply because of its diverse lifestyle and more so how
Indians treat their guests. The education expansion throughout the sub-continent
perhapsbegun much earlier in India than expected. India is a country which according
to historical view point; scholars started teaching with the help of sculptures
thousands of years ago. To date the 11th century elementary and secondary schools
now known as madrassahs, colleges and even Universities are spread throughout the
country. There are several colleges and Universities started by Muslims in cities like
Delhi. Lucknow, Allahabad etc. A lot of Kenyans have studied in some of these
Institutions while others still continue to seek admissions there. When the Hindu
college was first established in Calcutta in 1817, nobody knew that it could operate
more than two centuries later. Indian Universities are in their thousands more so as
the western model of education continued to spread all over the country. With more
than three hundred Universities and almost four hundred engineering colleges and a
dozen medical Institutions. it became very easy for Kenyans to be admitted in India.
Again there are more than thousands of colleges affiliated to those Universities hence
being admitted has never been difficult nor complex for Kenyans.
Subjectslikephilosophy,religion,sciencesor medicineperhaps begunin India around
the 5th century. That could have been the reason behind India’s lead in such fields
especially medicine. There is no country in the world where medicine or medication
is quite cheap like India. Now medical tourism is also booming and foreigners from
all walks of life are being treated in India for various ailments. The steadfast growth
of scienceand technology continue to attract many Kenyans to study in India. As long
as a student is eligible, his or her admissions process won’t have any road block. The
main aim of most Universities across India is to have maximum foreign nationals in
their Institutions. This to them, is one way of promoting the good name of the

University. Kenyans who have studied in India are like Ambassadors of their
respective Universities.
As a developing country, Kenya still needs a lot of information to acquire from India
in key sectors like Infrastructure, food planning and water technology. That is why
the Government would not hesitate in sending most of its nationals to study in India.
With more than one thousand medical colleges, India can support Kenya in such an
area which the country still suffers tremendously.
PART 4
ACCOMMODATION PROBLEMS AND DAILY CHALLENGES OF FOREIGN
STUDENTS IN INDIA
The moment a student lands in India for studies, the next serious challenge is
accommodation and how to relate with the host nation people the Indians. There are
some Indians who have had a negative publicity about Africans and for them renting
an apartment to a black student is a big NO. To them an African is dirty, rowdy and
already has criminal record. Whatever happens, still s Kenyan student will have to
struggle and get an apartment. They have just to succeed in that and the sponsor
would not hear otherwise. Landing in India to pursue higher studies automatically
affects the normal life of a foreign student. It is a journey of mixed emotions as the
students venture into a new territory, meaning that it could be a struggle all through.
This is a quest for knowledge that has got far reaching consequences particularly in
the psychological aspect of it. Such students are likely to physically out of touch with
their loved ones depending on the number of year one is likely to take.
The fact that Kenyans are always mentally ready to tackle any future challenges
doesn’t that they won’t be affected. Parents and the society expect the students to
adapt to a new environment and settle down for serious book work. The students are
expected to feel at home and be able to complete their studies within the shortest time
period possible. To cope with life in India has probably been easy for the Kenyan
community in India. One main factor is that their lifestyle and the manner of doing
things are totally in contrast with the host nation. The Indians even expect them to
immediately behaving like them. That has never worked out as the Africans come
from a totally different cultural upbringing.
For the landlords who are willing to rent out a flat to a black student, rent is normally
high, that is doubled. The notion among Indians is that any foreigner going to their
country for studies is rich. Even if a foreign student is overcharged, they ought not to
complain because they are probably from an affluent background. This is the tag that
a Kenyan student entering India for studies has to live with. Those who studied in
India way back would describe the country as totally unique. The air that welcomes

the students as they land in India is different and the environment quite hostile. It is a
daunted task as the students open up a new beginning in a society which hasn’t given
black skin its due recognition.
The most painful episode that awaits the Kenyan students as they throng Indian
Universities is being duped. It is a game that starts from the Indian Airports up to the
final destination where they wouldbe expected to register or study.This is an episode
that has left many totally disappointed as the new arrivals end up losing their
valuables more so money, travelling documents or passports. Amidst all the chaos
that awaits the Kenyan community, parents or sponsors view remain unchanged, that
is one has to come home with at least a degree. Nothing is expected of the students
apart from studying and again passing in flying colors. A Kenyan who first lands in
India and immediately losing all his/her possession on arrival might never find the
going easy. Such incidences can a permanent psychological scar on the affected
students and some take many years to adjust. Apparently Kenyans come from a
society where studies come first not such challenges which according to those who
send them for studies regard as minor.
Some students do get temporary accommodation from fellow Kenyans but only on
short term basis. Again it is not for free because every student depends on remittance
from their parents or sponsors. The only language a Kenyan sponsor would love to
hear is that a student reached India safely, got admission and is studying. What many
parents or sponsors don’t know is how India can be complex to any new visitors on
landing on its soil. Those sending their sons, daughters and even relatives to India are
not aware of what lies beneath the sub continent. Of course Indians are very friendly
and that’s one fact why many Kenyans willcontinue to seekhigher education in India.
However for the Africans to fully adjust to a level where they can comfortably settle
down and study is still a distant away for many. It not only cheating and being duped
that is driving Kenyans insane but how the Indian society still regard those with dark
features. It is in India where an African has to cope with all sorts of bad comments
being passed on them almost on daily basis. It is a trend which has even reduced the
morale of studies among students from different parts of Africa. The majority of
Indians still believe in fair color or white complexion. It is for this that Africans still
have a long way to be accepted full into the Indian society. Africans probably had in
mind that the Asians they interact with on dailybasis in their respectivecountries and
the ones they meet in India are the same. Indians believe that a dark skin person is
evil, inferior and ought to be kept at a distance. When the first batch of Africans or
Kenyans arrived in India for the first time in their quest for knowledge, it was a shock
among Indians whom had never associated with the Africans.
Those are tough challenges which Kenyans started facing ever since they began
pursuing higher studies in India. Abusing or passing bad comments on Africans is
still considered a normal thing across India. It could be due to the fact there has never

been a strict law in place that prohibits such practices. It is a fact which parents or
those sending anyone to India for studies are not aware of. May be the law is exist but
it has never been fully implemented considering the fact that the Indian Constitution
is one of the largest in the world. Being a bused everyday as one goes to a college or
attend a lecture is a painful saga indeed. These are happening which have never been
encouraged in the African in the African cultural lifestyle. From childhood to adult,
none has a right to call an African any sort of name which appears abusive. For those
Africans or Kenyans who were unable to handle such verbal attacks anymore, they
have had the going quite tough. Some students have even lost their lives as a result
more when attacked by a mob. Indians believe so much in mob psychology and a
thousand of them can attack one African. The mob psychology believe that an African
cannot be fought barehanded but with sticks, bricks stones and even iron rods or if
need be, the victim should be shot dead.
Another theory that is going on in the mind of in the mind of an Indian is such a
bizarre ideology. It is a theory that an African is like a metal and the hair is like a
strong grass that cannot be cut easily. Resorting to violence when faced with such
remarks has cost most Kenyans so dearly. Some have been killed while others
remained with permanent physical marks which they never expected to get in a
foreign land. The problem is the lack of proper and even clear information concerning
the African people. That is why it is easy to be called such and such a name, though
the most seriousone is when an African isreferred to as “black devil.“Of course India
is a large country and foreign students may not be able to fully its cultural diversity.
Nearly every part of India behaves differently and it depends on how the society has
been categorized inn terms knowledge acquisition or caste lines. What Indians still
don’t understand is that an African so disregarded in their society is joining some of
their most prestigious Institutions. That these people from Africa are leading in all
fronts from sports to academic and even able to adapt to some of the toughest
conditions prevailing in the country, is a puzzle to most Indians. Whatever the
difficulties,Kenyanshave continued to excel.They are academic conquerors no matter
what though this comes at a prize.
Students from Africa have had a rough time dealing with some landlords in India.
Strong Hindu followers don’t accept foreign students especially Africans whom they
claim follow a different pattern of diet. In most cases before a tenant occupies a flat,
the landlord often enquire whether a student’s eating habits. It is a fact that greets
African student on arrival but as usual, such problems are not expected to hinder a
student from settlingdown and studying in India. An Indian professoronce described
the Africans as a misunderstood generation in the midst of a unique culture. Despite
the presence of a family of Africans spread across Gujarat and Nicobar islands, their
genuine recognition is still a long way. It is said that the Africans are soft target
because they are unique and easy to be spotted from afar. That is not an advantage
but part of the continued cultural and social alienation.

The issueof food is not only an African problemsince even Indian students from other
states especially north Easterners encounter it. Indian landlords often accuse them of
eating all sorts of animals including dogs. Despite being Indian, the problems they
face in their motherland are similar to that of an African student. As the confusion
continued across India, on how to handle the Africans, Kenyans themselves are
pouring in and out. The only thing the parents or sponsors keep reminding those sent
to study in India is that if several of their brother and sister have succeeded in India
amidst all obstacles, then they should also do the same. The facts are clear and the
parents or sponsors are not at all compromising. A huge pressure has been heaped on
the minds of Kenyans students and it is coming from parents, friends and relatives.
What they expect from their kin studying in India is studying in India is success and
nothing sort of that. It is an intellectual journey full ups and downs and also
emotionallytasking. That iswhy it is advisablethat those studyinga cross India ought
to have sober minds and take care of their emotional outburst. They would continue
to face some of the most outrageous questions, remarks which one might find hard to
provide answers.
The moment a Kenyan begun the daunting task of what brought him or her tom India,
the first remarks from Indians is that ‘why their country, could be that in Africa there
are no universities, colleges and even houses. Of course Indians cannot provide
answers to issues like that and they expect Africans to provide them with satisfactory
answers or clues. Some Indians still haven’t known the fact that the world is currently
turning into a global family. That is why it is easy for an Indian of Indian origin to be
found holding the post of a mayor in a Kenyan city. In the United States of America,
the Indians have continued to excel in many fields like space exploration as well as
politics. Some are even Governors like Bobby Jindal who is a governor in Louisiana.
Since someIndians can’t understand why most Africans go to their country for study
purposes, then they have no idea why the late KAULPANA CHAWLA managed to
becomean astronaut in the United States. They will also not understand why SUNITA
WILLIAMS is successful in the United States than India. Such people discovered a
conducive environment and achieve their dreams. They were asked by the Americans
why they run away from their mother country. It would have appeared quite naive
on the part of the Americans to ask Kalpana Chawla why she could not trained to be
an astronaut in India. Even Sunita Williams the latest Indian born girl to have spent
quite a number of weeks at the space station, perhaps never encountered such
questions. They simply the academic world and achieved their dreams in a foreign
country where they got a different model of open democracy.
On the other hand, the strong Kenyan community who have studies in India or
continued to do so must be ready to face such queries. Just what made them to go and
pursuetheir studiesin India of all the countries?. There will never be any forth coming
response to questions like that because humans are meant to travel and integrate.
American Spanish channel journalist with the CNN while receiving his PhD at a
colourful convocation at JNU in Delhi never had any answers to such questions. He

was directly askedby fellow scholars if there were no Universities in Mexico and what
made him travel all the way from South America down to JNU in India. The quest for
knowledge power and prestige can take one to any part of the globe. That is why if
one finds an Indian working at an oil well in the remote parts of Sudan or Nigeria,
they need to given a free hand in their jobs. Sharing knowledge and experience know
no human borders.
What Kenyans continue to undergo across India can simply be termed as identity
crisis. It is only cricket through cricket that perhapsmade most Indians to try and trace
Kenya from the world map. The shocking thing is that most Indians still believe that
all black Africans come from either West Indies, South Africa or some remote jungles
of the world. The struggle on daily basis isn’t easy for the Kenyan students in India.
They are only valued as long as long as their monetary power is good. This attitude
has sent the bell ringing around the world including the Europeans. The fact is that
India is emerging as one of the most materialistic country in the world. Africans
studying in India from the middle class families, whose remittance from their home
country at times delays, have had to live with all sorts of remarks. An Indian can’t just
compromise as long as money is not on the table.
The monetary lust is considered very dangerous for a country with over one billion
population. Humanity will soon lose its meaning as money; power and wealth take a
Centre stagebefore human valuesin India. It isa fact which Kenyansstudying in India
never had any idea. A materialistic society is one viewed in terms of money, locality
where one livesand to some spendinglavishspending. This is a total nightmare which
perhaps caught many Kenyans unawares. These innocent Africans land into a society
where an outsider is looked in terms of money. It is very easy for anyone to be killed
in India over minor depts. Like fifty or hundred rupees leave a lone delaying with the
Landlord’s money which can turn disastrous.Such factors however flimsy are enough
to shape the destiny of KENYAN studying in India. Our parents aren’t aware of such
happenings because they are guarded by certain beliefs and assumptions that India is
a good place to study. Anything besides that is just considered part and parcel of
problems that can take place in any third world. In India friendship is viewed in two
fronts, first being a member of the caste of which Africans are out and possession.
Those who don’t have should simply befriend those who don’t have.
Kenyans 0n the other hand had this belief that a friend is a friend, no matter what sort
of social or economic background. Such imaginations hardly exist in the Sub-
continent. The story of a Kenyan who once stayed with an Indian family for almost
five to six years, had a harrowing experience when he was about to leave India. The
same family which once regarded him as their son simplyturned against him. He was
accused of breaking fans, taps and also messing up with the walls. He had no money
even to pay for the damages he was accused of. As the situation turned unruly, the
house owner and his wife confiscated his small radio which they thought had some
value. He eventually left the Indian family for Kenya without saying bye to the host

whom he had shared a lot with during his study period. Now in Kenya and a lecturer
at one of the local Universities, he might tend to put all that behind and move on with
a new life.
There are Kenyan students or diplomats who have left India with such a heavy heart
and vowed not to return to a country which gave them so much. Reasons being that
majority from that country are not genuine. Indians even if rich still harass and abuse
their own countrymen or women from other parts of the country likethe Eastern Sates
like the North Eastern States, Orissa, Orissa and also certain part of UP (Uttar
Pradesh).If they are facing such a humiliation in their own mother land, there is no
option left for the African students but to undergo similar fate. Kenyans studying in
India can’t afford to complainevery day on what goesround them. They wouldrather
be dismayedand move on just likeway the Indians from different parts of the country
are trying to adjust with their fellow brethren. The same situation is where students
from the Eastern States find themselves and theirs could be worse off.
The common impressionamong most Indians is that North Eastern Students are more
Chinese and ought to be treated differently. They are heckled at and accusedof all sort
of things like not respecting the Hindu Mythology, dressing differently and having
unique eating habits. They are like foreigners in their own motherland than perhaps
foreign students. When African students find themselves in similar situation it
becomes very hard for them to cope with their daily endeavour. The averages Indian
however still believe they are living in one of the most challenging nations on earth.
Both young and old have to do everything to maintain social harmony for any
meaningful prosperity and understanding to exist. That is why among Indian
students, there is that classification be it some of the most prestigious of Higher
learning. It also why a Bihar student is likely to meet in other states.
That’s why India has always been referred to as “A GREAT INDIA” because things
are bound to be different and interesting. Beef eaters in the country have had serious
clash with some Indians who claim that such people are eating their mother ‘god the
cow.’ That affects all whether one is an African or Indian.
There many cases where Africans students and even Indians have been thrown out by
orthodox Hindu landlords for cooking a non vegetarian dish in the premises. Any
delicacythat smellslikebeef, chicken. Pork is likelyto invite the wrath of the landlord.
It is a normal thing for one to come across such incidences the moment any foreigner
sets their feet on Indian soil.
Kenyan students do copevery well in situations like that and hardly dothey complain
because they are not in the country to stay forever. The only thing is that should the
landlord prove to be a thorn in their flesh; the only option is to seek for
accommodation elsewhere. That’s why a foreign student keeps on changing flats year
after year within a short duration of time.
Shifting from one apartment to another is not an easy task and some students have

been ableto keepup with the pace. It leavesthem mentally disturbedand emotionally
as well such that their study life is affected. A new landlord might have a new set of
regulations and a Kenyan student is expected to try as much as possible to live or
adjust with that.
The wrangle between foreign students and landlords particularly the money minded
lot is a daily occurrence. One can’t escape it the moment the study life begins in India.
At times it generates into a physical brawl and the option left for a student is to look
for an alternative accommodation. That is why we say that studying in India is a
struggle in itself from day one to the end.
For students who can’t cope with such pressure, they opt for hostels accommodation.
Nearly every Indian University or college has hostel facilities within their campuses.
The hostels are generally peaceful, have good study environment and are also cheap
rent wise. Once in the hostel, a student can have a free landlord hassles.
The hostel iscourse a better optionand everystudent would loveto be accommodated
there. What hampers most students from joining hostel is the type of food offered.
Students from outside India especially Africans find the Indian food too spicy and
oily. To adjust with it throughout one’s study life isn’t an easy thing.
Coming again to renting a room in India if one is a student, one fact which students
are not aware of is that they are a new source of income The relationship is purely
monetary and the friendship can turn sour as long as rent isn’t paid on time. The
landlord is your best friend when paying rent and anything beyond that is
inconsequential.
Property dealersalso take advantage of foreign students and charge them exorbitantly
high. For every house taken or rented, they (property dealers), demand almost a fifty
percent commission. In most cases, it turns out to be a chain of exploitation which is
quite rampant across India. That’s why the hostel accommodation is better for a
foreign student because the rental charges are fixed by the respective Universities
One fact that is mandatory for those staying in hostels is maintaining good behavior
conduct and discipline. A student has to show the authorities that he/he is studying
and even passing exams. The student’s academic performance is always submitted to
the hostel warden after every semester or yearly.
The way a student lives in India can determine his/her destiny. It means that an
individual has to get a proper shelter during the entire study period. There is no way
a student can fulfil the much needed dreams in India when one doesn’t have a place
called home. It is areas where some Kenyan students have managed so well while
others have miserably failed.
We can call that life management or simply being organized. Without proper
organization on study life in India, the sub-continent can be extremely harsh. The first
task is how students handle the money their sponsors send them on quarterly basis.

Life takes a new turn when the money is misused or not spent wisely.
The worst scenario comes when on receiving their money, rental and college fees taka
back seat. Some Kenyan students hardly pay their rents and also college dues. That’s
where new war front begins in a student’s life. The moment rent isn’t paid, the
impatient landlords’ only option is to throw the tenants out.
Several Kenyan students have been evicted by the landlords who accuse them of not
paying their rents. Same thing applies to colleges and other Universities which have
also in the past cancelled admission of a couple of students for non-payment of fees.
The problem isn’t about finance as such spending money in areas that are uncalled for
is the main issue.
What student does with the money from their sponsors is personal and nobody can
interfere with that. The problem is that it is not used wisely. The money is also not too
much to cutter for some other expenses which the sponsors are aware of. Students
mostly finish their money on traveling throughout India. For them, the moment the
remittance arrived, they will be out of the stations for a couple of months.
With the wallet temporarily heavy, a Kenyan boy would spend a huge chunk part on
his girlfriend. For the time being until the pocket runs dry, the girl is likely to enjoy
the best life. She will be taken shopping on weekly basis and even lunch or dinner are
likely to be ordered from the nearby eatery joints, all these on the boy’s account just
to be more assertive even it means temporarily.
By the time money is over, another chapter in a student’s life begins. It is a life where
rent had never been paid for months and even premises locked by an angry Indian
landlord. The college dues had also not been paid and admission cancelled. That is
the time when a disorganizedlifebeginsin a student and it mostly goesbeyondrepair.
What students who have become a victim of such circumstances do is to start leading
a hanging life. It is a life where a student would ran up and in search of a place to put
up and even food to eat. Kenyans are generous in this regard and are likely to bail a
colleague out but not for long. That is because it is like taking care of a sick patient
whose recovery remains unclear.
Such students wouldmove from one house to another for temporary accommodation.
They can spend a night at a friend’s house then move to the next but that too depends
on the mood of fellow good Samaritan. Some students avoid offering shelter to their
stranded comrades because they fear incurring un-necessary expenses. No one has
any extra cash to spend on a stranded Kenyan abroad.
The moment a student doesn’t have a place to stay in India; it means that chances of
studying are almost gone. It is a sad life that has got very serious implications. Some
of the affected students are likely to stop communicating with their sponsors or
parents who would wish to know how studies are getting on.

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