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Part 9 of The Masters Who Crossed the Ocean. A doctor who renounced medicine to write 200 books and train the teachers who carried yoga across the world — the hidden hub of the whole story.
Part 1 of The Crossing. For decades the answer was America. In 2026, with US student-visa refusals near record highs, the world's largest cohort of outbound students is redrawing its map.
US F-1 student-visa refusals for Indian applicants rose from 23% in 2015 to about 61% in 2025, even as European applicants faced roughly 9%. The gap is pushing Indian students toward Germany, Ireland and Canada's graduate routes.
Indian study permits to Canada have collapsed from 188,715 in 2024 to 94,605 in 2025 — a 50 per cent drop in a single year. The approval rate for Indian applicants fell from 81 per cent to 28 per cent. Brampton's agent economy is folding; families in Punjab and Andhra are reassessing; the Canadian dream that Indian families spent two decades constructing is being quietly dismantled. This is what the data shows, and what it does not.
An OCI pays Indian tax on Indian-source income — rent, interest, capital gains — under residency rules that tightened again on 1 April 2026. The TDS regime, DTAA relief, TCS on outbound money, and the traps, explained.
