Racist attacks in Australia.. The joke.

Boy!! What am I reading.. I just read something really funny today.. The Shiv Sena has  burnt an effigy of the Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd to protest the attacks on  Indian students in Australia!! Reported by an Indian media IBNLive. Shiv Sena! This is probably the worst joke I’ve ever heard.

Is it the same racist Shiv Sena, who attacks non-Maharhastrians in Mumbai if they try to  get a job in the city? Is it the same Shiv Sena who attacked Biharis and UP people in  Maharhastra because they were employed. And we’re not talking about two different  countries here. This is about different states in the same f**king country. They hit and  kill people who come to work in Maharhastra from other states. Don’t we get mugged in India  or hit by Shiv Sena or any other communal or racist organization for that matter. Don’t the  Dalits/Christians/Muslims/Hindus get hit more often in India than the so called Indian  students in Australia? Forget about these stuffs.. We got bombed and many got bullets in  Bangalore serial blasts and the Mumbai incident. Wasn’t white girl raped and murdered in  Goa? And then one of those jacka$$ politician made a comment about the kind of clothes she  was wearing when the incident happened. What makes the Indian media(specifically Aaj Tak)  think that India is such a safe country to live in. Take for example Dr Binayak Sen’s  case. He’s been locked up in the jail for two years without any charges.  Now how crazy and  shameful is that.

In Bangalore itself, I was once asked leave the place as didn’t know Kannada language, by  an elderly person. It was really a bitter incident as it was only my first month in the  city. One of my friends was also asked to leave Karnataka and find a job in the home town  Bhubaneswar as the locals didn’t want us there. Now how does that feel, when you’re the  citizen of this country. However as with any other place even Bangalore, Kolkata,  Hyderabad or any other place for that matter, majority of the population are really nice  and friendly. There’re a$$holes every where. What I believe is there is no point blowing  such an issue out of its proportion. It’ll only invite more problems and strain relations  among Indians who’re well settled there and whites.

And if our own country itself has so many racism or otherwise national problems, why’re  all these celebrities and the politicians playing such a big farce about the  Australian issue. The Indian student are studying in Australia on their own will and I  guess everyone should see both sides of the story. I say, its only fair to look at your  own country before blaming others.

I was in the UK for close to half a year and i rarely faced any issues with racism, leave  apart any attacks. And FYI, accordingly to many who’ve lived in both UK and Australia, UK  is a much more racist country than the later. I never had any racism problem with adult  population. It was only some of the unruly teenagers who created the problem by calling  names sometimes. And most that happened in smaller towns, never in big cities. Most of the  Friday nights I used walk home alone after partying till 1.00 AM in the morning. Nothing  ever happened to me. I wouldn’t dare walking the streets of Kolkata or Bangalore alone at 1.00 AM.  Either I’ll get mugged or I’ll be picked up by the police mistaking me for a criminal.

However I’ve seen one trend among Indians abroad. They tend to form groups among themselves  and behave as if they’re still in India in the foreign land. They also most often speak  Hindi.  While there is nothing wrong in it, but the point is, if you left Indian to live in a  foreign land I believe you should integrate with their culture and most importantly behave  properly.