Friday 15 October 2010

Do the Aussies have an India problem?





Anyway you look at it, the Aussies seem to have problem with things India and Indians. Don’t take my word for it, just look at the facts:

1. Which is the country with the largest number of racial attacks - "curry bashings" - on Indians, for over a year now?
2. Which is the country which has 23 per cent of the world's total Uranium reserves but has steadfastly refused to sell it to India, even though the Nuclear Supplier's Group has okayed the sales?
3. Which is the country against whom India almost forfeited a cricket test due to biased umpiring?
4. Which is the country who raised racism charges against an Indian cricketer, and against the unwritten understanding that what happens on the field should remain on the field complained to the match referee and the ICC?

5. Which is the country against whose athletes threw a washing machine down eight floors of their apartments during the CWG 2010, in protest against the Indian team handing them a drubbing on the cricket field? And abused the nation's cricketing god?
6. Which is the country which regularly issues security alerts and threatens to boycott sporting events in India?
7. Which is the country in which senior police officers were circulating a videos of an Indian being electrocuted in a train and joking that 'this" was the way to deal with the immigrant Indians in their country?
8. Which is the country in which an Indian citizen -- Mohamed Haneef -- was detained and his visa cancelled in 2007, after it was found that he was the second cousin of two men arrested for involvement in terrorist attacks in the UK; and who later won both cases against the Government of Australia, his visa was restored and cleared of any links to terrorism.
9. Which country's captain, broke all protocol, tapped the Chief Guest of the evening and a member of India's Union Cabinet, on the shoulder and almost demanded that he hand the World Cup over immediately?
There is, of course, only one answer to the all the queries - Australia.
What does this suggest? Isolated instances. Or the result of a particular Australian attitude towards India. Racial undertones or plain jealousy - at an erstwhile Third World country's ascendancy in the global economic and power calculus?

3 comments:

  1. whatever australia does india will always b far ahead from them!!

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  2. hahaha.....very well said shruti....:)
    india is d best.....:)

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