The recent 'outbreak' of 'racist' attacks against Indian students has created quite a stir in India. Indians — some of them, at least — have suddenly discovered that Australians are a racist bunch . . . I wonder what happened to all the happenings on the cricket field from years past which gave very voluminous hints that Australians were not quite a combination of Mahatma Gandhi/Nelson Mandela/Dr. Martin Luther King . . . I am completely at a loss to understand why some Indians expect to be treated as anything but 'outsiders' in a foreign land . . . I do not understand why Indians have to go to Australia . . . Oh, they apparently go there to 'study' . . . Well, I don't know that Australia boasts of many world-class universities . . . I am sure India has got many institutions of caliber . . . Somehow, I suspect the reason why some Indians like to go to Australia is not purely because of 'academic' reasons — I think these folks just want to get...
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