Denied citizenship, Pakistani immigrant's son cracks India's NEET exam

For Premchand, a street seller of clothes in Jodhpur, his son Sandeep's achievement is an opportunity to look back at his own journey

On the footpath outside the railway stadium in Jodhpur, a man in his late 40s has setup five mannequins donning salwars of various hues and a neatly stacked pile of colorful clothes on the bare ground. To ordinary wayfarers, Premchand would be one the thousands of other nondescript street sellers in the ‘Blue City’ of Rajasthan earning a few hundred rupees a day to see his family through life. But for the man, who took a train journey with his wife and five children from the town of Khipro in Pakistan’s Sindh province through the border checkpoint of Munnabao before