Study Abroad
Choosing a country, a course and a cost that make sense. What a degree is actually worth, what life on a student budget abroad feels like, and whether the return justifies the years away from family.
Global journey guidance
Global journey guidance from people who have already made the move.
Study Abroad, Work Abroad, Settle Abroad or Return to India — decisions that change the shape of a life. Anubhav Setu connects you with experienced mentors who have lived each of these crossings and looked back at them honestly.
A decision to go abroad — or to come back — is rarely just about a visa or a salary. It is about what a life looks like on the other side of it: the distance from ageing parents, the cost of starting over, the children who will grow up between two countries, the career that may not translate, and the quiet question of where home actually is.
Anubhav Setu offers experience-based global journey guidance in India: conversations with mentors who have studied overseas, built careers abroad, settled there for decades, or returned to India for a second innings. They have faced the paperwork, the loneliness, the professional reset, and the moment of deciding whether to stay or to come home — and they have no agency to sell you, no university to push, and no commission riding on your choice.
We do not handle immigration filings, visa applications or regulated legal work. Those go to qualified professionals on our panel. What we offer is the conversation that happens before and between all of that — the judgement that paperwork cannot give you.
How it works
- Listen. You describe the situation in your own words — no forms full of jargon.
- Understand. A mentor who has lived something similar asks the questions that clarify the real decision.
- Guide. Options, trade-offs and what usually happens next, from decades of practice.
- Refer. Anything clinical, legal, financial or otherwise regulated goes to our Professional Panel.
Four crossings, one honest guide
Work Abroad
The offer that looks larger on paper, the work culture that does not translate, credential recognition, the spouse who cannot work, and the first eighteen months when most people quietly consider returning.
Settle Abroad
Permanent residency, citizenship, ageing parents across an ocean, children between identities, and the long-term question of whether a place becomes a home or stays an address.
Return to India
The second innings: reverse culture shock, career re-entry, children who have never lived here, money that does not stretch the same way, and the relief and the grief of coming home.
“Every global move is two decisions folded into one — where you are going, and who you become once you arrive. Talk to someone who has already been both people.”
Tell us which crossing you are standing at — Study Abroad, Work Abroad, Settle Abroad or Return to India — and we will match you with a mentor whose own life sits closest to it. There is no cost, no upsell and no obligation to follow the advice.
Common questions
- Is this an immigration or visa consultancy?
- No. Anubhav Setu offers experience-based guidance, not immigration advice. Visa filings, documentation and regulated legal matters are referred to qualified professionals on our panel. We help with the judgement around the decision, not the paperwork.
- Who are the global journey mentors?
- Experienced adults — largely professionals aged 50 to 70 — who have themselves studied, worked or settled abroad, or returned to India after years overseas. They are interviewed, oriented and bound by a code of conduct and confidentiality.
- Can mentors help with both going abroad and coming back?
- Yes. Many of our mentors have lived both sides — years abroad followed by a return to India. The Return to India conversation is often the one people need most, and the one they cannot have with anyone else.
- How do I start?
- Send a short note through the Talk to Someone form describing which crossing you are at and your preferred language, and we will match you with a mentor for a first conversation.
Anubhav Setu is not a clinical or emergency service. Our mentors are experienced adults who share perspective within their competence; they are not positioned as psychologists, doctors, lawyers or financial advisers. Regulated matters are referred to qualified professionals on our panel.