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Racism has “swam” literally from Australia to United States of America. A young Sikh student working part-time as a pizza delivery boy has been reportedly physically assaulted a group of unscrupulous US citizens when he came to deliver a pizza to their house, the Skh Coalition, a community advocacy group said. The attackers neither paid him for the pizza nor were decently behaving with him. They have hurled racial abuses at him. Although the real identity of the student or the attackers or the place of the incident has been withheld, it happened somewhere in Texas.

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The ongoing racial abuses and slightings in Australia towards Asian students, particularly Indian, are casting forth dark shadows over the prospects of expansion of educational partnership and enterpreneurship between India and Australia. In accordance with IDP Education chief officer Tony Pollock’s analysis, racist practices may earn Australia a 50% dip in the number of  Indian students interested in pursuing higher courses in the country.

From among the 35000 students intake by the IDP, around 1100 are Indians and more than 6000 foreign sutdents have voted the Australian cities, Sydney and Melbourne as as potentially unsafe for foreign students.

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Both the Indian and Australian governments’ failure is perhaps the reason behind the incident that has once again stirred violence in Australia between the local Melbourne community and the Indian counterpart residing in the same area. Reportedly, one local skateboarder  along with his comrade (aged 25 and 42) who abused a small group of Indians  at a car-park outside Meadowglen International Athletics Stadium in Epping and also damaged an Indian’s car’s rear window when the NRI was coming out with his group after a Kabaddi match, was  beaten badly by the Indians.They have been taken to North Hospital for treatment where their condition has stabilised.

“Associates of the people, whose car was damaged, came to their assistance. Two men were assaulted and hit with sticks in the brawl. These two injured men were from the group outside who had allegedly started to verbally abuse the people from the vehicle,” the local police said in a statement.

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Only days after the previous assault, a 28 year old Indian student was attacked in the north-west of Melbourne where reportedly the student after getting off a bus at Keilor Plains train station at 12.15 am Tuesday was approached by two men who asked for cigarettes.

After obliging them both, when he turned,he  was hit over the head at least six times with what he believes was a plank of wood or a baseball bat, The Age newspaper reported, and  laid there unconscious until he was spotted.

Cop Kevin Squires  described the attack as irresponsible although he declined to comment on the racist facet of the incident. “They seemed to be hanging around the station just looking for someone,” he said. “They just kept whacking him at the back of the head.” This comes a week after John Bramby condemned the recent assaults by Aussie hotheads.

Only a week earlier, an Indian cab driver was assaulted by Essendon footballer Michael Hurley, 19, after he got miffed by fare issue on Hoddle Street.

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Today  Sapped comes to life. However, the Indian sun proved a lot more merrier than the Indians themselves. While at one side of the world, Indians were rejoicing the birth of a new era with the discovery of water (H2O) by Chandrayan 1 which happens to be the first time solid proofs were collected by humans of any country (NASA had belief but no evidence) and the assumption of the possibility of life once again throbs in every intellectual mind, on the other hand, racial discrimination of Indian students in Australia once again reaches a breaking point as a good number of agitated and grieved Indian students collectively marched the streets of Australia shouting slogans against racial violence. This reminds me of an interview by NDTV of an Indian student residing and educating himself in Australia, who unfortunately, has been made one of the unlucky victims of this racial bias. The student faced such slighting comments from his one of his own professors: “Indians can be good laborers only… they can’t become managers… like Red Indians.” Why yes, which Indian’s blood won’t boil at this point? I can hear every Indian heart beating with a constant pulse that reverberates throughout the air saying, “Just one chance. Give me one chance to prove myself!”

Yes, perhaps John Bramby, the Victorian Premier who visited India recently, is doing a good job while calling these hideous incidents as “an assault”. But hey, where are the results? I heard the Australian PM claiming “stringent” punishment against such wrong-doers. But the question remains hidden at grass-root level.

Let us transcend from the Indian territory to the macrocosm.

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