Kangaroo V/s Tiger
Are you a fan of the Australian cricket team? If you are one amongst them kindly pardon me for attacking the attacking team not for their arrogance on the field but towards the Indians in their country. The spot light of Indian media is on the Australians for more than a week or so. Indians are being mercilessly beaten up by the aboriginal youngsters of Australia. The natives are infuriated with the archaic word “racism”. The tradition of India shows that the word is not newborn. For centuries our country was doomed with this filthy word racial discrimination. The most interesting thing is that we are still witnessing these atrocities in the so called tech or nano era.
Recently I read Goldie Osuri an Indian teacher in the university of Sidney writing that Australians tempt to over look the word ‘race’ saying “race is an overused word”. Now this word seems to bee under looked word for them, not when our Baji was put under the scanner with the charge of racially abusing the extra decent Symonds of the Australian Cricket Team( who is now watching the 20/20 at home for his extra decent temperament). The recent police insistence on the Indians in Australia is not to use the ipods and laptops in public places for this might invite problems. I have a very serious doubt, are these Australians dud in using computers. A very recent press release of the AUS government says that the reason for Indians being targeted is their peculiar physical features. It seems that Australians have had a tie up with the oxford for deleting the word ‘race’ for its dictionary and so they are waiting for the one million and 1th word to be coined. The Rudd government of Australia is on an attempt to go back to an antediluvian era
marked in the history of Australia where there is even scope for indigenous self discrimination.
I thought obamas, sworning in as the US president of the US will bring about a sea change in the attitude of the Caucasoid but I now realize that it was just an elusive target. The attacks on the Indian students in Australia was a fumigating act of crime for years which now erupted with immense media sensation in India though the news is hushed up in the Australian dailies like ‘The Australian’.
Why to blame Australians solely, we Indians too have a decisive role to play. The agents who recruit the students to the universities expose the colour of being a foreign student but cover-up many darker sides of being a foreign student. About 1/5 of the total seats allotted for the foreigner are filled in by the Indian students ,among them 30% study in mainstream universities which have adequate security but the rest are in some smaller institutions where they fail to provide security. They become soft targets. So India needs to curb the recruitment of students to enroll in shop front institutions. A specter is attacking Australia, the specter of racism. Racist incidents will continue to occur in Australia unless stringent actions are taken against the culprits.
