It all started with the “racist attacks on Indian students in Australia”. Since I was in Sydney at that time, it struck me as a bit odd that suddenly a community was allegedly being attacked for no reason. Upon talking with people who have been here for many years, my suspicion was confirmed – media hype. Indians -or migrants in general -  have never had it TOTALLY easy here and there have been numerous attacks in the past too. The person I talked to had himself been beaten up once 9 years back. Come to think about it, Australia is a big country with cities that are quite cosmopolitan in nature. I just ask those who hype up these matters, which major western city does NOT have regular crimes against migrants. Dont New York, LA, London et al have crime problems. What the hell do you think will happen , if you put an Indian guy in a dark alley at 2 a.m??

What was worse, was the way the Indian students responded after their was a surge in attacks…They were saying things like “Indians work very hard!! We dont like to fight. Indians should not be attacked”. Just their tone – it wasnt right. The point is simple – nobody need hurt anybody. Nobody cares if Indians work very hard. AND sadly protests of the kind that these guys did over here, were in my opinion counter-productive.

When you know you cant defend yourself against someone, you dont protest and draw attention to yourself – get me if you can. This is not about “justice,freedom” or whatever utopian ideal one uses to justify protests of this sort.Its about being practical, you simply dont play fire with fire when your matchstick is too damn short. (EDIT : lol, weird metaphor O_o) You burn yourself.

And who the hell are we Indians to even mention racism? Why did some of us cringe when we heard Mayawati may be PM? Havent we been racist for centuries? We have discriminated not just against people of different colour, not just against people of different religion, not just against people of different states but even people of a different caste of our own damn religion. Nevermind the media, they never had much to do anyways except hype up non-issues. Lets not throw stones when we ourselves live in glass houses.