M F AHMAD
Daltonganj, Feb 26: A very timely advisory of the Indian embassy in Ukraine asking Indian students pursuing different academic and business courses in Ukraine not to hang around if they can afford to exit Ukraine helped Palamu student Shubham Kumar to get back to his home.
He took a Turkish flight on February 21 and reached home in Jharkhand’s Mohammadganj safe and sound on February 24.
Shubham Kumar told lagatar24.com last night that had he delayed his flight by even a few hours, he would have got stuck up in Ukraine now.
He said he acted upon the advice of the Indian embassy in word and spirit and made no mistake about deciding to stay in Ukraine as every passing hour there was getting difficult and uncertain.
“Two more Indian students, one from Jharkhand and one from Orissa, were wise enough not to ignore the advisory of the Indian embassy in Ukraine,” he recalled.
“We were watching developments in Ukraine over the last one and a half months which was unpredictably turbulent but in between, the Ukraine government used to ask us not to panic assuring us of the situation to improve,” he added.
He took a Turkish airline on February 21 and through Istanbul and Dubai landed in Delhi around midnight of February 22. He reached his home in Mohammadganj in Palamu on February 24.
Shubham’s father Mahipal Pd is a well-known contractor. Mahipal Pd said he and his family are tension-free following Shubham’s arrival now.
Shubham did his graduation in Commerce (accounts) from Dehradun and decided to have a master’s degree in international business. He has a dream about setting up a business of his own in Italy.
He took admission in the Master of International Business in the Taras Shevchenko Institute of International Relations in Kyiv in Ukraine.
It was an eighteen-month course of which he had completed 14 months when this Russian invasion of Ukraine took place dashing all his hopes of what to do next.
He said his parents did everything to get him back home. He got Ukraine currency well in time and that made his journey home in India, Jharkhand a reality hours ahead of the war in Ukraine.
