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Indian students in Australia make a massive contribution to the Australian economy.

It is estimated that one lakh Indian students are studying in Australia. Most of them pay hefty fees for the courses.

Assuming that each student spends around Rs 20 lakh for a two-year course, including tuition, travel, stay and food — as a conservative estimate — the total comes to Rs 20,000 crore.

That is what they spend. They are thus an important resource for the Australian education system. So, when they are attacked and injured or killed by thugs in public places the least they can expect is proper protection by the system.

Instead, the government of Australia offers tips to Indian students about behaving in public places. It is shameful that the government has not categorically, unequivocally and unambiguously condemned these attacks even after learning that the gangs are celebrating what they call “Indian hunting month”. The racist undertones are apparent, but it is not clear that the authorities are addressing the issue.

The Australian police maintain that these are “opportunistic crimes” — whatever that means. In a crowded running train when thugs were beating up Indian students mercilessly, no one came to help the victims. Another student was beaten up on a crowded railway platform. Again, there was no one to rescue him. It is hard to believe that they would have shown such indifference if one of their own was being so belaboured. Their behaviour makes one suspect a revival of embedded racism in that society. The sort of treatment Indian students have been subject to should have moved India’s Ministry of External Affairs to call the Australian High Commissioner and give him a mouthful.

Just suppose a single Australian student had been hit in India. Our entire TV and print media would have gone wild about it. They would have had debates about how unsafe India is for foreigners and how much “fascist groups” are growing in Gandhian India, and why the chief minister concerned should be punished, and so on and so forth.

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Originally posted by Vandematram

Just an observation and NO PUN intended.

"How come in all the attacks in USA and now in Australia predominantly TELUGU people are being attacked?".

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I would think because large no of students from AP go abroad for their studies.

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Australia is one place where u don't need to be academically good to get admissions.. As long as you can pay the fees , admissions are easy..

Last year when I was in Sydney I met a lot of Indian Students ( mostly from AP) and they all said they chose Australia as they never got accepted with any schools in North America bcos of their low scores !!

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Racist Attacks on students in Australia
These attacks need to be condemned and strong action needs to be taken against the criminals. At the same time, in India we need a debate as to whether and which parents should send children for higher studies. We need to take a hard look on this whole “business” of sending children for “higher studies” to developed countries.
Unlike the 50 or 60s, whatever education required for science and technological development in India, is available within the country. Where desperately needed, we can request the Indians already settled abroad to come and help, which they will be more than glad to do. This must be already happening in places like IITs. Only where there is absolute necessity for the students to learn further, they need to go abroad, albeit only for a short duration.
Currently, apart from those who are seriously pursuing their education, there is this group of people who send their children to developed countries just to “show off” to their neighbors, friends and relatives in India. Many of those children will pass off only as average student even in India. But because of the wrong guidance of their parents and attraction for the western way of life, they end up in wrong places.
For example, there was this student from my own home town Chennai, whom I met while working in a warehouse in Mississauga. He was from a middle class home and had just then spent more than 17 lac rupees to come and join a college in Niagara, after completing his engineering degree from a private engineering college in Chennai. Unlike in India where one can go through the motions but still get away not working, it is impossible to do the same in Canada. The work was packing fruit drinks and other consumer items for display in supermarkets. Though the conveyor appeared to move slowly, in about 10 minutes time we will find the job of arranging the fruit drink cartons on skids in particular pattern and colors, to be really back breaking and unless one is with good physical fitness, he would not be able to return the next day for doing the work. After finishing this 8 hour stint, the student had to rush from Mississauga to Niagara for the evening college classes and then return to his bachelor accommodation near Pearson Airport. Even by the efficient Canadian public transport, Mississauga to Niagara is no easy distance. After managing his cooking, he has to take care of his home assignments too. Hats off to him, he was very really good at work and was managing everything admirably. I did ask the student whether he had spoken to his parents about his tough life here. He replied in the negative saying that would cause his parents terrible worry. It was really nice of him. But there are many other examples, about which if I write I will be stirring up unnecessary controversy.
Obviously, the parents will absolutely have no clue to what their children are undergoing.
The education and immigration agents, for the sake of the hefty commissions they get, give wrong ideas and mislead the parents here. The agents indulge in “hide and speak”. On their part, the parents too do not fully enquire and confirm with the educational institutions whether there is any job guarantee after completion of studies. For the sake of country’s economy, the "developed" nation governments too look the other way. The students already not among the brightest in their classes here in India, find it difficult to manage both study and work. They do not get the best of the grades. Near about the period the studies and visa is going to end, they are highly stressed, for they do not have the job to continue their stay. Their stint has taken them nowhere. More importantly, they have lost touch with India too. Just for the sake of survival they may have to take up some job totally unrelated to their study. All this will definitely cause tremendous physical and mental stress. We should be surprised only if the students from here do not get caught in wrong situations and not the other way.

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Is Sonia Gandhi going to come out and condemn the Australian criminals as merchants of death?

Or will the government just lodge protests ?

Well last time when that Muslim Indian Doctor was detained/interrogated by Aussie Police/Secret Service over terrorism charges - our dear PM Manmohan Singh could not sleep one night.
So, I wonder, what is happening to him now. Seems like, he is having a good night's sleep this time. No concrete-forceful direction/step yet - no setting up committee's yet - only bhasan-bazi for Indian audience.
No wonder, why we were under foreign rule (Mughals, British, etc) for 1000 years.

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