Were white women raped to avenge Aussie attacks?
June 20th 2009 13:13
Are white women being harassed, molested and raped in India as a reaction to the attack on Indian students in Australia? One can never say, but in a country where white skin is always an item of pride the hatred for whites (read Australians) has never been higher and the reason for this is the nature of coverage the media in both countries has given these incidents.
The press coverage of the attack on Indian students in Australia, never earlier known for racism has been so detailed that it has verged on the level of being provocative. But foreign students or rather Indian students still continue to go to Australia, because not only do they value the kind of education they will get there but also the kind of jobs they will pick up there when they finish their education.
There have been two shocking incidents of foreign women being molested and raped recently in two cities, Lucknow where a woman tourist was molested inside a bus and the other passengers did not bother to even murmur a protest and Chandigarh where two drivers raped a teenager inside a moving taxi. So have Indians suddenly decided to become racist too?
Both these crimes can be attributed to different reasons, but the short span if time in which they have taken place after the Australian incidents is alarming. Moreover because the tourist season is only a few months away and India will stand to lose a lot of foreign exchange and goodwill if the wrong message is sent across the world that India is an unsafe destination for foreign tourists especially women.
The police stomp, kick and lathicharge innocent and unarmed protestors as a rule in India, but when the Aussie police dispersed a crowd of Indian students in Australia the headline categorically made an attempt to play up this angle. In India such an incident would have been covered by a label headline saying Cops disburse unruly mob.
Once the word gets around that Indians have become racist too, then our five thousand year old tradition of the guest being equivalent to God will go for a six and the tourist season could be bowled out for a duck.
The press coverage of the attack on Indian students in Australia, never earlier known for racism has been so detailed that it has verged on the level of being provocative. But foreign students or rather Indian students still continue to go to Australia, because not only do they value the kind of education they will get there but also the kind of jobs they will pick up there when they finish their education.
Both these crimes can be attributed to different reasons, but the short span if time in which they have taken place after the Australian incidents is alarming. Moreover because the tourist season is only a few months away and India will stand to lose a lot of foreign exchange and goodwill if the wrong message is sent across the world that India is an unsafe destination for foreign tourists especially women.
The police stomp, kick and lathicharge innocent and unarmed protestors as a rule in India, but when the Aussie police dispersed a crowd of Indian students in Australia the headline categorically made an attempt to play up this angle. In India such an incident would have been covered by a label headline saying Cops disburse unruly mob.
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