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From: murali@cvl.UUCP (Muralidhara Subbarao)
Newsgroups: net.nlang.india
Subject: Re: Getting a visa in Madras
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Date: Thu, 4-Jul-85 15:31:41 EDT
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> 
> Of course, I didn't have to see the "tough lady" ....
> 
> Rumours about Madras being realy bad are not all true.
>
   Out of 19 IIT Madras students who had applied for a visa
   by June 15th this year (some of them had admissions to some of the
   finest graduate schools in US) only 3 had been issued visas
   (two for Physics and one for Math). Others are waiting
   and hoping that the situation will change. 
   Is this not bad enough?

> Presence of mind and a certain degree of fatalism help.
> Think that your chances are 50-50. 

   Fatalism helps only to console yourself if the visa is refused,
   not to get one. At present, I guess, the chances of
   getting a visa is more like 10-90.
  

                                              Murali.