Tragedy struck three Telugu students who went to the U.S. to pursue higher education just about 10 days ago, as they were attacked by armed robbers in Chicago of Illinois state. One of the two who received critical injuries died while undergoing treatment.
On January 22 evening (local time), the three who were at a parking lot were reportedly confronted by two armed Afro-Americans. Even as they complied with the robbers and gave everything they had on them, the robbers opened fire at them. While Lakshman managed to escape unhurt, Devasish and Sai Charan received critical injuries in the torso, reports stated. Telugu Association of North America (TANA) representatives reached out to the students and extended necessary support.
Three Telugu students who went to the U.S. to pursue higher education just about 10 days ago were attacked by armed robbers in Chicago, Illinois. One of the two who received critical injuries died while undergoing treatment.
On January 22 evening, the three who were at a parking lot were confronted by two armed locals. Even as they complied with the robbers and gave everything they had on them, the men opened fire. While Lakshman managed to escape unhurt, Devasish and Sai Charan received critical injuries in the torso, reports stated. Telugu Association of North America (TANA) representatives reached out to the students and extended necessary support.
HyderabadReports of over 100 students, who got admissions to various US universities and colleges, are being sent back to India from several US airports sending shockwaves among the student community here.
As the academic year began in the US, several hundred Indian students got visas and set out for their studies. Beginning last week, at least 100 students from the Telugu States of Telangana and Andhra Pradesh were grilled at various ports of entry and sent back directly from the airports to India.
Unconfirmed reports suggest that US officials are checking the social media profiles, chats, and emails to check the financial health of the students, their intentions (whether they are coming here for studies or to seek employment), and explicit social media posts promoting hatred.
Though there is no official clarification from the US authorities, reports suggest that the deported students failed to meet certain guidelines, which include financial health, objectionable posts/comments on social media, and not-so-satisfactory answers given by the students to the questions asked by the immigration authorities.
Meanwhile, about 40 US Universities will hold a fair in the city later this week, showcasing the academic opportunities there. Keeping in mind the recent deportations of students, the universities are likely to advise the student community on following the rules and procedures to ensure a hassle-free, smooth entry into the US and join the colleges without any hindrance.
The 27-year-old, the daughter of Rangareddy district and sessions court judge, had completed her masters in construction management from Eastern Michigan University and was employed as a project engineer in a Texas firm. Until the events on 6 May, she was living the dream of lakhs of students in Telangana.
What Canada is to Punjab, US is to the Telugu states. More students from Hyderabad went to America to study in the 2021-2022 academic year than New Delhi and Mumbai combined, said a report by Open Doors. Of the 2.6 lakh international students who enrolled in the US during that period, 75,000 were Indians, 30 percent of these were from Hyderabad, the report said.
The American Telugu Association (ATA), one of the independent organisations working for the welfare of Telugu students in the US, has warned the students to avoid working in dangerous and vulnerable locations.
The next day, the three lecturers are taken to Government Junior College, Sozhavaram (Tamil) / Government Junior College, Siripuram (Telugu). They are received warmly by the village's President Muthu Pandian (Tamil) / Patthi Papa Rao (Telugu), where Bala/Balu sees Meenakshi, a biology lecturer, and falls for her. The next day, none of the students show up to the college. Bala/Balu learns from the Telugu lecturer Thanigachalam (Tamil) / Deekshitulu (Telugu) that all the warm welcome was just for publicity and students arrives for sweets and hots at the college. Meenakshi tells him that before the shutdown of government colleges, this was the only government college in the district, and many students from the neighboring districts used to arrive, but they were unable to trust them even after opening, thinking that they might close the government colleges sooner or later.
Bala/Balu made a promise to Meenakshi that he will get all the students to the class within 3 days. He asked the president to organize a meeting with all the villagers and their children. Bala/Balu gave a speech about the necessity of education, thus making the children and parents realize its importance. The students then started coming to the classes. Bala/Balu also brought back an ex-student, Muthu (Tamil) / Satti (Telugu), who discontinued his education after his parents committed suicide and got addicted to alcohol and smoking. Bala/Balu offers him a job 30 rupees per day as his daily wage and assures him to study as his work. He also reformed many students like Kumar/Murthy and his gang, who were not interested in their studies. Meanwhile, Karthik gets ill and leaves the college, as does Prakash Reddy/Bulli Reddy. With their departure, Bala/Balu takes over the responsibility of teaching both Physics and Chemistry classes as well, for both MPC and BiPC students.
Bala/Balu noticed that due to caste differences some students ill treating other students. He eliminated this barrier within the class and from their minds, by explaining that necessity had no caste thus making them united and affectionate on each other. Meenakshi was impressed by this act and fell for him. The board exams took place and all the students passed with first class. With the 100% pass percentage achieved by Bala/Balu, Thirupathi/Tripathi confronted him and told him that the pass percentage of his own private college is just 75% and people wanted to join the government colleges, owing to the quality of education. He tried to lure him with a senior lecturer promotion and salary hike in one of his private college, but Bala/Balu did not fall for it and in-fact, stopped working for him. He even challenged Thirupathi/Tripathi that he will make all the students pass with distinction the next time and also get them a good rank in the TNPCEE/EAMCET examination.
With this, Thirupathi/Tripathi bribed the opposition party leader to create a strike on unemployment and also the ruling party's education minister to take back the positions offered to lecturers at Government junior colleges and recruit new ones. This caused Balu/Bala to lose his job and his father, Narayanan (Tamil) / Narayana (Telugu), his job as a driver. Nevertheless, Bala/Balu took classes in an open field, in the village. Thirupathi/Tripathi asked Muthu Pandian/Patthi Papa Rao to arrest him and drive him away from the village. Bala/Balu fights back, but the cops arrest him and take him into custody. They gave him third degree treatment. He was dropped back into the village soon afterward, where the villagers were asked not to help him gather his things, denoting that he misused government school funds. However, seeing Bala/Balu barely able to walk, that too, under the scorching sun, all the students gathered and helped get onto a bus safely, to be taken back to city, with a heavy heart.
After Bala/Balu recovered, he took up tuitoring at his home, after many failed job interviews at the private junior colleges. Meenakshi arrived and made it clear that she wants to stay with him only, having decided to marry him. They saw a young boy willing to study, but was unable to, due to poverty. His father constantly kept pressurizing him to earn money. Bala/Balu took him to his teacher's, Mohammed Ansari's house, for tuition, free of cost. Meenakshi asked Bala/Balu to return back to the village to teach the children. As he was banished from the village, Bala/Balu got the idea of recording his lectures, using cassette tapes, and send them to Bittu Bhupathi (Tamil) / Boothu Bhushanam (Telugu) (Abhi's grandfather), a highly demanded photographer in Siripuram who runs a video shop in Anakapalli and local theater in Siripuram which famous for running Blue films. He asked Bhupathi/Bhushanam to run special shows for the intermediate students from 6:00PM to 9:00PM, everyday, where only Bala/Balu's lectures would be played. The whole village would think of it as another film.
In this way, Bala/Balu took classes for the students and also told them that, they have to pass with distinction, and also crack the TNPCEE/EAMCET examination. To clear the students questions and clarifications regarding the subjects, Bala/Balu constantly visited the village, under the guise of a drama artist, each Sunday. Thirupathi/Tripathi learnt about this and tried to order Muthu Pandian/Patthi Papa Rao to finish him off, to which he did not agree, stating that he was just using him. Muthu Pandian/Patthi Papa Rao knew about Bala/Balu's toil to teach the students and had a change of heart after seeing his daughter perform really well. He permitted all students of the village to go to junior college. On the day of the TNPCEE/EAMCET examination, while the students were on their way to the exam center, Thirupathi/Tripathi sent goons to stop them.
Bala/Balu fought them off and sent the students to write the exam. The students performed extremely well and cleared the TNPCEE/EAMCET examination in the top 100 ranks to their surprise Satti announces his full name as A. M. Kumar/A.S.Murthy scoring State first rank in EAMCET. Thirupathi/Tripathi offered money to all the 46 students, promising them sponsorship for their further studies and also a good life to their families, just for them to tell everyone that they have scored such good rankings, because of Thirupathi/Tripathi Educational Institutions and not because of Bala/Balu. Bala/Balu asked them to agree to it, because that is what he always wanted for them, everybody to respect them. He tells the students to use Thirupathi/Tripathi's ego, to climb the social-economical ladder to become successful and give back to those in the future, who would not be able to afford education. Later, Tripathi meets Balu and insults him for his victory then Balu questions his way of victory by thefting other's win and lefts from there. Later, the students signed the contracts, but Balu, and Meenakshi were never seen after that.
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