(IMAGE: SUPPLIED BY SANDEEP KAUSHIK)
On an overcast morning in March, about 100 Indian students gathered at Jantar Mantar, an 18th-century observatory in the centre of New Delhi to send a message to Scott Morrison: let us back into Australia.
Sandeep Kaushik, one of the organisers, travelled nearly five hours from the northern city of Chandigarh to be there. He’d spent the last five years studying accounting at Universal Business School Sydney and driving taxis on the side before an accident forced him back home to recover.
Then the pandemic hit and Kaushik was stuck in India. Now he wakes up at 3am each morning and climbs up to the roof of his building to attend zoom classes without waking his family.