Sunday noon here in Melbourne..Its been a while since I blogged..seems as though I left a lot of things back in India after coming here..and with it the drive to write my blog..
I've been missing this too..more than my readers, I can say with most certainty; not that I'm mocking you guys..without the comments and feedback I get on these posts, I might have never taken to writing after the very first writeup on the placements' drama.
But anyways, so much said, I felt I was ready for a comeback into blogging.. A lot has been happening in Melbourne recently..or to put it more aptly..A lot of unpleasant events have been making news in this rather quite city otherwise.
Its a shame that even the Western culture which speaks so much about openness to cosmopolitan crowd and being forward in terms of an advanced culture, resorts to such cowardly acts of inhumanity even in this century. It might however be wrong if I say the wrong doings of a few is representative of the whole community, but still, its the culture you grow in, basically, that moulds you.
There was a March of Protest few hours back in the city by Indian students voicing their grief regarding the last week's incidents. I will be surprised if this makes it to the papers ahead of some Footy player's dramatic story of how he feels ashamed of his bad temperament on field and wants to apologize to the fans. Back home, I know such an incident (a foreigner's story) will be first thing to make the headlines on the front pages of the newspapers, but here its usually the other way round. I see this both as good thing and a bad thing and I'm sure you will agree, depending on whether you are a citizen or outsider in a country. But, personally, I feel priority should decide this and not always nationality.
There has been more concern this time around than few years back, when most of such incidents, much smaller in degree, were suppressed in the interest of the citizens here. Word seems to be that a 3.5 billion dollar investment into advertising Australian education in India, might go down the drain otherwise. The Labour Party therefore has been doing something about this to protect the rights and interests of Indians here. On and off these things have been happening once or twice in a span of 3 years. But I hope it will reduce still more, after these recent, more serious incidents.
Its always been something about my country that made me write, though I wish in future it won't be something unfortunate.
Live and Let Live !
Peace
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