Incidentally, Joshi’s remarks had also drawn a sharp response from the grieving father of Naveen Shekharappa Gyanagowdar (21), who was killed in Russian shelling in Ukraine’s Kharkiv on Tuesday.“Naveen was an intelligent student who simply could not afford to study medicine in India and so went to Ukraine,” his father Shekharappa Gyanagoudar was quoted as saying by NDTV at his home in Karnataka’s Chalageri.”The donation is very high for those wanting to study medicine here. Intelligent students will go abroad to study, and they spend a lesser amount when compared to Karnataka. Here, a student will have to pay in crores to get a medical seat under quota,” he added, pointing out that Naveen had scored 97 per cent in his school exams.”No talented person should be born to a poor family. There is no value for talent in our country…no value for talent,” his mother Vikayalakshmi said, weeping.Siddappa, a relative of Naveen, was quoted as saying that since the family had financial constraints, Ukraine was among the more viable options before the family.“The family did not want to buy a management quota seat. But all family members pooled in money to send Naveen to Ukraine so he could chase his dream of becoming a doctor,” he said.It is noteworthy that as per official information, only about 6,000 of the estimated 20,000 Indian students stranded in Ukraine have been brought back to the country so far. “There were around 20,000 students/citizens who were stranded in Ukraine. Of them, 4,000 were brought back to India before February 24. Additional 2,000 students were brought back to India till Tuesday and efforts are on to evacuate the remaining Indians stuck there,” Union Minister of State for External Affairs V Muraleedharan said on Wednesday while speaking to reporters on the sidelines of an event.Incidentally, late on Wednesday, the official Twitter handle of Indian embassy in Ukraine tweeted a second advisory, asking Indian students in Kharkiv to leave the city immediately, without offering any help. The embassy itself shut down on Tuesday.
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