When Amaan Abbas sent his son to Canada two years ago, he had hoped that his son would finish his undergraduate studies, apply for Masters and eventually start his work life there. It was a well-laid out plan except that his son wasn’t ready to chase a foreign degree yet. Three semesters down the line, he is back in India and has enrolled in a private university. Letting go of a foreign degree was too little a price to pay for the 19-year-old who found it “difficult to adjust in the international campus” and found solace back home.
