I studied in India about a decade ago and remember it being the same. I never faced the shenanigans this guy did, but wow the red tape was mind-boggling. Just

I studied in India about a decade ago and remember it being the same. I never faced the shenanigans this guy did, but wow the red tape was mind-boggling. Just to get admission to the university, I had to get approved by the police commissioner of Hyderabad(then a city of 5 million), which involved an actual meeting with the guy. This despite being in the country on an Indian Government scholarship.