Everywhere I travelled in India I was welcomed and felt entirely safe. I look forward to my next trip with the same excitement and hope that we can get past this unfortunate and tragic incident. My heart goes out to the families involved.

Who are immigrants in Autralia, You europeans or Asians who have more proximity to that piece of land called Australia.

How would you then explain attacks happening on Indians with student visa. Your statement that there can not a smoke without a fire is shameless. What Australian police has been doing till now? They should have found ‘smoke’ by now, if it indeed exists. Of course you are paranoid about the immigration although you yourself are in immigrant. If your society, of which you are a part, doesn’t like immigrants then they should make laws to that effect and tell it clearly. All Australians politicians and officials when they come to India they always say we welcome you in our country. We want Indian students to come to our country; and now they can not protect them. That is a good example of the double standards Australians live with.

Regarding quid pro quo measures suggested by the author, Indian universities and Institutions do not restrict entries of foreign students. If Australian students want to come to India, they are welcome. Regarding job opportunities, Govt. has to make a law. We are not a developed country like Australia and we have 1 billion people already. We can not afford to start giving jobs to everyone from all part of the world. Although there are many foreigners already working in India and many Australian companies earn big profit here, which they take to Australia. Australians should question these companies rather attacking Indian students. What a shameful statement from the author. These Indian students are not rich, they take loans from banks in India and then go study Australia hoping of better future. In that process Australia also earn big bucks (Education is already third big export sector in Australia). Aren’t they helping Australian economy? If Australian are attacking these hard-working students, then what treatment do you think Indians should give to Australian?

Well, racial attacks mean, an attack on ‘all’ Indians in Australia. It includes onsite Indian employees, tourists, students etc.. But this is not at all a racial scene over here. But it is of course criminal. There cannot be smoke without a fire. So maybe the Australian Govt dig deep into the causes of this effect, and control immigrations if the need exists.

~J~