Chinese lure for Indian students falls under the Coronavirus shadow

Wuhan alone has over a dozen medical colleges with affordable fees and no entrance exam. The govt has evacuated more than 600 Indian students since Jan from there and Hubei

New Year celebrations were gathering steam in China’s capital city Beijing on a lazy January 1 afternoon. Shanky Chandra, a Dehradun lad pursuing his research in Chinese science fiction at the Beijing Normal University, was going about his day till he received an alarming text from his Taiwanese friend: “Atypical pneumonia swarms occur in Wuhan, Hubei Province...The news has caused public concern that the severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) has revived.”

Surely, it was a rumour, Chandra thought. He tried to verify the information from some of the professors who, as it turned out, had also heard the rumours and