Every Afghan student considering studying abroad carries a quiet concern: Will I belong there? It is a valid question. Moving to a new country means adapting to a new culture, language, and environment. But what if the place you are going already carries traces of the one you left behind?
0:00 /0:53 1× Layla. Kabul. Studying in Mumbai. I want to tell every Afghan student you already know this place. The language has echoes of Dari. The Bollywood films you love were made in this city. The ancient Silk Road connected our peoples for a thousand years. Maharashtra
0:00 /0:51 1× Daud. Mazar-i-Sharif, Afghanistan. I completed my B.Tech. Then I chose M.Tech., Master of Technology, at a top Mumbai institution. IIT Bombay's research ecosystem, industry partnerships, and world-class faculty. M.Tech is listed on fn.mahacet.org/ under Technical Education postgraduate. Afghanistan&
Most conversations about Afghan students in Maharashtra focus on undergraduate programs - B.Tech, MBBS, B.Arch. But Maharashtra's technical education extends well beyond undergraduate level, and Daud from Mazar-i-Sharif is evidence of what postgraduate study here actually means. Daud completed his B.Tech. He then came back
Hamid is from Kabul. He is studying LLB - Bachelor of Laws - at a top Maharashtra institution in Mumbai. He leads with one observation: most Afghan students researching India do not know this program exists. They know engineering. They know medicine. They know MBA. But Law? Listed under Higher
Sana is from Herat. She is studying Civil Engineering at a top Maharashtra institution in Pune. She is direct about one thing before anything else: engineering is not just for men. Not in Herat, where women have shaped the built environment for centuries - the geometric tile work of the
0:00 /1:02 1× Sana, Herat, Afghanistan. Civil Engineering in Pune, Maharashtra. I want to say something directly - engineering is not just for men. Not in Herat, where women have shaped the built environment for centuries. Not in Pune, where my lab partners include women from six countries.
Eight months ago Bilal was in Kunduz wondering if this was possible. Today he is holding a blueprint for a structural bridge project - a real design with real calculations, reviewed and approved by his faculty supervisor at a Nashik engineering institution. This is the final article in his three-part
Bilal landed in India and took the road to Nashik. His hands were shaking - not from fear, from the feeling that something he had decided on paper was becoming real in a way paper decisions never quite prepare you for. Part 1 covered the decision - how he found
His name is Bilal. He is from Kunduz, Afghanistan. And he wants to build things that last. Not the vague ambition of a young person who has not decided what they want - but the specific, grounded purpose of someone who has watched a country be built and destroyed and
On 7 April every year, the World Health Organization marks World Health Day - a global reminder of what good health requires and who is responsible for providing it. This year, from a teaching hospital corridor in Mumbai, Nadia is thinking about Afghanistan. She is 21. She is from Jalalabad.
Herat is a city of extraordinary artistic heritage. Its tradition of miniature painting, the intricate, geometric, jewel-coloured art form that flourished in Herat's ateliers during the Timurid period, is over 600 years old and is recognised by UNESCO as part of humanity's intangible cultural heritage. Herat