Shri Vidyanathan has jumped the gun, drawn his prophetic conclusion without reading contents of my letter. We all agree with his sentiments, about poor quality of education, as first sentence of my letter, “Most would appreciate, even support government crackdown on bogus colleges that rob students of hard earned money, even worthless qualifications and stringent but fair test in English language, essential ingredients to succeed.”
He should have read article in AV my letter was based on. Would it be fair if ten thousand aspirational, assiduous students pass preliminary tests with flying colours but only half are granted student visas for political, sociocultural reasons? Is this our Achilles heel? As for applying to prestigious universities in India, please study Hardik Patel’s andolan; one main reason stated was that students from Patidar community with 95% marks were denied places due to unfair, inexpiable and outdated quotas in favour of OBC.
We are comfortably sitting on podium, grabbed opportunities we were granted, yet we would like to deprive our Indian students from taking same rout out of misguided, unfair righteousness and fiduciary loyalty or is it tantalising self-preservation? Let our luminary readers make up their own minds!
Kumudini Valambia
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