AUS-INDIANS 3 LAST

"There are many examples of highly successful members of
the Indian community here. Just like any other society, there
are small minority of miscreants and malcontents," Ravi
Bhatia, Prime Telecom chief, had said earlier.

"Voice of Indian students has been heard at the highest
level of the country. I would request them to give government
time to address their grievances," Bhatia said.
Rakhi Kaul, another Indian here, expressed her concern
over the attacks and asked "when all this will come to an
end?" She said she is scared to send her two kids to school.
"It is sad to see such attacks happening but we are also
concerned about the backlash. Bringing race angle again and
again is just forcefully putting such a thing into their
minds," she said.
In a recent write-up, Sam Varghese, an Indian-origin
journalist of 'The Age', wrote "a large number of minor
incidents, of which the Indian community is aware, have not
been reported because students are fed up with the lack of
response from the police. They are also scared that reporting
such incidents may lead to a backlash from their would-be
attackers."
However, the Federation of Indian Students in Australia
(FISA) has maintained that racism in Australia was "still
alive and being reborn in a new generation".
"What is clear to those of us dealing at the coalface of
this problem is that a section of Australia has embraced
curry-bashing and that institutional racism in the police
force and the media and political elites means Australia is
ill-equipped to deal with the problem in an open, honest
manner," FISA founder Gautam Gupta said. PTI NC
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