Tushar Joshi's dreams of studying in Australia on a scholarship have been upended by Covid-19.
The pandemic has brought challenges for many students, but Tushar Joshi's circumstances are tougher than most, writes Sarah Toms.
His hopes of further studies were dampened when India shut overnight in March last year and the country went into lockdown to curb the spread of Covid-19. His father lost his job and the family could not manage to even afford meals. But the pandemic has meant he must attend classes remotely, often working by the light of a dim lamp as his family sleeps. The clanking and rumbling of passing trains shatters any hope of peace and quiet.
"It's something we could never even imagine because no-one in our entire family or the village has ever studied this much and at the international level," said his father Santosh Joshi.Worth up to $44,000 a year, the Sydney Scholars India Equity Scholarship is given to an exceptional Indian student from a poor background to take a postgraduate degree.
Even parents in the slum - who are mostly illiterate - want their children to start working as soon as possible, he said. But his parents were different. "They didn't hold me back despite having financial difficulties. They told me I had to study so I wouldn't be like them," he said.
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