Yet that support has evidently begun to wane among young, middle-class Indians, who have realized that international sanctions make it tougher to get student visas and jobs abroad.

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Both nations have huge student populations that will otherwise continue to take their brains and ambitions abroad.

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Student activists, who started the campaign for a referendum on independence, are becoming more organised and travelling abroad to promote the idea.

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