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Tears, Dreams, And Goodbye: How Ananya Joshi's American Dream Slipped Away
Times of India ^ | 10/3/2025 | Education Desk

Posted on 10/05/2025 8:35:39 AM PDT by marcusmaximus

The United States has long been seen as a land of opportunity, where ambition and hard work promise professional growth and personal freedom. But for international students and professionals, that promise can be fragile, shaped by visa rules, corporate decisions, and global economic uncertainty.

Ananya Joshi, an Indian biotechnology graduate, recently became the human face of this precarious reality. After earning her master’s degree at Northwestern University in 2024, she began her career under the F-1 Optional Practical Training (OPT) programme at a biotech start-up. But a sudden company-wide downsizing left her unemployed, and with her OPT period nearing its end, she faced a stark choice: Find a new role quickly or leave the US.

In a tearful Instagram video documenting her departure, Joshi described the experience as “by far the hardest step in this journey” and admitted, “Even though I seemed to have accepted my reality, nothing could have prepared me for this day.”

(Excerpt) Read more at timesofindia.indiatimes.com ...


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Bye!
1 posted on 10/05/2025 8:35:39 AM PDT by marcusmaximus
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To: marcusmaximus; Cronos

The longer the Robinsons let your New Xenophobia Troll go on, the worse it’s gonna get for Free Republic.


2 posted on 10/05/2025 8:38:42 AM PDT by kiryandil (No one in AZ that voted for Trump voted for Gallego )
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To: marcusmaximus

Why isn’t India a “land of opportunity” ?


3 posted on 10/05/2025 8:39:38 AM PDT by Steely Tom ([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
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To: marcusmaximus
But a sudden company-wide downsizing left her unemployed,

Oh, wah. As if she's the only person who's ever been unemployed due to downsizing.

4 posted on 10/05/2025 8:42:22 AM PDT by Texas Eagle ("Throw me to the wolves and I'll return leading the pack"- Donald J. Trump)
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To: Steely Tom

Yeah, why isnt India leading the world in tech?


5 posted on 10/05/2025 8:43:22 AM PDT by KC_Conspirator
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To: Steely Tom

Zackly.


6 posted on 10/05/2025 8:44:44 AM PDT by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: kiryandil

Can you explain that statement? I don’t see what the USA owes Indian tech workers when we have plenty of American ones right here.


7 posted on 10/05/2025 8:46:00 AM PDT by RinaseaofDs (Imagine what we'll know tomorrow.)
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To: marcusmaximus

She’s probably a nice, smart woman.

Unfortunately, we can’t permit nice foreigners, corporate traitors, vote-buying Democrats and cheap labor Republicans to create massive unemployment in the USA.


8 posted on 10/05/2025 8:46:39 AM PDT by Brian Griffin
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To: marcusmaximus

I voted for this!


9 posted on 10/05/2025 8:47:59 AM PDT by Uncle Miltie (PLAUSIBLY ANTI-SEMITIC POSTS: Hardspunned 90% Nitzy 88% Right_In_Virginia 84% Liz 50% Mac_Truck 32%)
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To: RinaseaofDs

Most biotech and drug development work is grunt work.

Unless your name is going to go on or has gone on a patent, you shouldn’t be here working for pay in the biotech or drug development industry.


10 posted on 10/05/2025 8:50:01 AM PDT by Brian Griffin
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To: RinaseaofDs

It’s self-evident.

I can explain it to you, but I can’t understand it for you.


11 posted on 10/05/2025 8:50:42 AM PDT by kiryandil (No one in AZ that voted for Trump voted for Gallego )
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To: marcusmaximus

Americans have American Dreams too.


12 posted on 10/05/2025 8:50:51 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Je suis Charlie Kirk.)
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To: kiryandil

So now it’s “Xenophobia” to protect American jobs from foreign invaders who are here to replace and rule over us (not assimilate and become one of us)?

Shouldn’t you be over at the Dem Underground?

You sound like an HR rep at a big American corporation that is trying to force the “Buddy” system on American workers who have been directed to teach their replacements how to do the job...IF they want a severance package.


13 posted on 10/05/2025 8:59:13 AM PDT by Ghost of Philip Marlowe (Prepare to survive.)
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To: marcusmaximus

Why didn’t she get a green card? Why didn’t she become a U.S. citizen?

Why don’t you go home now.


14 posted on 10/05/2025 9:00:19 AM PDT by faucetman (Just the facts, ma'am, Just the facts )
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To: marcusmaximus
Bye!

Exactly. Anybody who gets teary-eyed over this foreigner's timely departure back to her home country is anti-American.

15 posted on 10/05/2025 9:04:53 AM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: Ghost of Philip Marlowe

Another “freeper” who doesn’t understand what a troll is.


16 posted on 10/05/2025 9:10:03 AM PDT by kiryandil (No one in AZ that voted for Trump voted for Gallego )
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To: kiryandil

People are mad because we are enforcing the law when we used to ignore it.


17 posted on 10/05/2025 9:12:43 AM PDT by AppyPappy (They don't call you a Nazi because they think you are one. They do it to justify violence. )
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To: kiryandil

A troll is not someone you disagree with.


18 posted on 10/05/2025 9:34:24 AM PDT by Kleon
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To: Kleon

And yet ANOTHER “freeper” who doesn’t understand what a troll is...


19 posted on 10/05/2025 9:37:31 AM PDT by kiryandil (No one in AZ that voted for Trump voted for Gallego )
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To: marcusmaximus

My spouse and I and I have been through no less than about 8 “company downsizings” over the past 20 years. We haven’t had a chance to catch up, retirement is looking precarious.

We are USA born and bred. Each break has lasted 1-3 years with low wage jobs in between while looking and advancing knowledge.

As new positions come along the managerial field is full of Sorority Hires - power mad white women who play favorites, in black glasses who could well be witches, from their appearance. Yes, there a few Indian women scattered among them in managerial or team lead roles.

As they burn out and downsize one group or team after another, they advance to the next round of destroying the company from within.

Teams are full of Indians, lower on the totem white women, and white men who do the heavy lifting.

Now AI is threatening, as wages sink lower and lower.

The corporate tech space is crowded with foreigners. LOTS from India, thanks to the Chamber of Commerce H1B scam.

For the most part the Indians are incompetent, arrogant, ignorant, and unpleasant. They lie. VERY few, count on one hand very few, are nice or appreciative.

They do things the Mumbai School of Low Expectations and Low Wage Technical H1B Factory way, without deviating and getting insulted when you suggest they could be wrong. Once you fix their work they put it back to the way they did it. And no one tells them the truth.

We have witnessed Americans having to clean up almost every aspect of their shoddy and sh!tty work.

I have no pity. Go home and Make India Great, If You Can.

We have no more pieces of pie.


20 posted on 10/05/2025 9:40:03 AM PDT by CaptainPhilFan (God gave them over to a depraved mind, to do things which are improper and repulsive, Rom 1:28)
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