nonresident indians from australia are struggling to return down under but even when they land back their ordeal doesnt end from flight cancellations to being fleecing by travel agents job losses perpetual uncertainty and quarantine anxiety they are facing it allafter landing they have to undergo 14 days quarantine in a hotel that too after shelling out at least au 3000 per person and au 500 each for children a group of more than 170 passengers has landed in adelaide alone in the first week of augustmelbourne resident charvi gupta an outofschoolhourscare educator who had gone to delhi in march for just 20 days could get back to australia after five months in the meantime she lost her job in april she says it was really stressful booking flights there must be at least 2000 nris from australia still stuck in india i had booked tickets with air india but they were cancelled i rebooked tickets and paid 2000 dollars for a oneway ticket i will have to buy another ticket from adelaide to melbourne i am yet to reach home and am eagerly waiting to see my husband she is under quarantine at an adeilade hotel till august 17navneet choujar the sydneybased filmmaker who landed in australia after a struggle of five months in august was declared covid19 positive soon after reaching adelaidechoujar who is in quarantine at a hotel in adelaide warns against travelling overseas he says international travel should not be undertaken the situation is uncertain as every other day the governments keep changing the guidelines and flights keep getting cancelledhe had to travel chandigarh in march this year to visit his ailing father after his fathers death choujar made several attempts in the last three months to come back but all went in vain twice i booked air india flights and went to board flights in delhi but these were cancelled at the last minute it was quite frustrating and discouraging adds choujaras for the expenses he said i have spent au 5000 to get back to australia that too after several attempts to book a ticket after reaching down under i had to pay au 3000 for hotel quarantine i will have to book yet another ticket to go back home to sydney from adelaidehe was declared covid19 positive on his return i dont have any symptoms i do have some breathing issues and requested a room with at least a single window in the hotel but failed to get oneeven other indians who have come back to australia are not too happy with the food arrangements in the hotels where they have been quarantined in adelaide guests are not getting proper vegetarian food and are unhappy with the size of the rooms and lack of proper ventilation melbourne resident charvi gupta doing quarantine along with others noticed people starving due to lack of proper vegetarian meals she approached some people in the indian community and arranged vegetarian meals every dayto offer help with meals