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Hyderabad hasn’t given up on American Dream. It’s just changed the destination to Germany

Hyderabad will continue to grow as an IT hub. But the larger aspiration of moving abroad has been driven by the belief that life is inherently better outside India.

Over the past couple of decades, Hyderabad saw a surge in engineering colleges. The assumption among most adults was that their children — those of my generation — would study engineering and chase the American Dream. The push to secure admission in a US college started while we were still in school.

There were a few exceptions, including me, who didn’t pursue engineering. But the desire among parents in Hyderabad to see their kids earning dollars in the US and the schools’ preparation to make that happen more or less sustained.

Now, that American Dream looks harder to achieve for students in Hyderabad and elsewhere, thanks to the Donald Trump administration’s restrictive visa policies and the anti-immigration wave sweeping the US.

So does that mean Hyderabad is witnessing a shift in the ‘go abroad’ plan? Not really. The........

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