{"id":8554,"date":"2009-12-12T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-12T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2009\/12\/12\/cash-strapped-indian-students-in-uk-suffer\/"},"modified":"2009-12-12T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-12-12T12:00:00","slug":"cash-strapped-indian-students-in-uk-suffer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2009\/12\/12\/cash-strapped-indian-students-in-uk-suffer\/","title":{"rendered":"Cash-Strapped Indian Students In UK Suffer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/news\/news-by-industry\/services\/travel\/visa-power\/Cash-strapped-Indian-students-in-UK-scrounge-for-food\/articleshow\/5284062.cms\">economictimes.indiatimes.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Many such students flock to the gurdwaras in Southall for free food. The documentary, broadcast on Sunday, quoted Nitin Walia, a student who has sought refuge at the gurdwara, as saying, &#8220;I can&#8217;t afford to rent a room, I&#8217;m borrowing money from relatives at home just to buy my bus fare to college. I will only be able to rent a room if I can find a job, if I can&#8217;t find one I will return to India. But that will bring great shame. I don&#8217;t know how I will return the money I have borrowed.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Didar Singh Randhawa, President of Sri Guru Singh Sabha in Southall, said a combination of recession and a surge in the number of students is changing the local landscape. Mr. Randhawa said: &#8220;We see hundreds of students hanging out in the streets, but there could be thousands. Most come here every day for food. We are happy to provide food.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: economictimes.indiatimes.com Many such students flock to the gurdwaras in Southall for free food. The documentary, broadcast on Sunday, quoted,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8554\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}