Get a foreign education: Sankalp
Sankalp Reddy was denied a US visa six times before he finally changed his study destination to Australia. The 31-year-old director of the film The Ghazi Attack, says he could make the film because he had studied abroad.
"If I hadn't gone abroad, the film wouldn't have been possible. In India, there's a great deal of concentration on the theoretical aspects of subjects. There, it was a more practical view that widened my horizons," he told students attending a seminar conducted by Global Tree on Wednesday.
Sankalp touched on many aspects of his experience — culture, language, food, immigration policies and career opportunities.
He enrolled for a degree in the Master of International Business (MIB) programme, but ended up doing a Master's in Fine Arts.
"I went for a MIB degree from Griffith University in Australia but one fine day, when I was in my first semester, I saw a hoarding of the Griffith film school on campus. I decided to change my course to Master's in Fine Arts and I am really glad that I took that decision," he says.
He says racist attacks occur not just in the US but can occur anwhere in the world.
He said it was a matter of pride that more students are studying overseas. From 53,000 at the turn of the millennium, today, an estimated 2.5 lakh plus students are studying abroad.