This has reference to the article, “Don’t tar all of Australia as racist” by Swapan Dasgupta in the Times of India ,7^th June .

When a few Nazi zealots meted out barbaric treatment to the Jews was not the entire German people tarred as Racist? What about Rhodesia, erstwhile South Africa or Mobutu’s Uganda? If on every alternate day (statistics given by Dasgupta) one Indian gets physically assaulted does it not smack of Racism? It is inappropriate  of Dasgupta to compare the incidences with wariness felt by “Marathi Manoos” about Chatt Pooja in Mumbai; it only exposes his bias. In this context my experience of a group of about 20 well educated Australians men and women in their forties is worth narrating.

About 4 years back I was (with my wife and 40 year old son) on a guided couch tour of East Europe conducted by a well known British tour operator. Apart from 3 of us there was one old south Korean lady, a Doctorate in languages teaching at a university in her country. The Australians behaved, by my conservative Indian standards, in a most atrocious manner with all of us “non-whites”; making constant fun of the old lady and taking her photographs while she was dozing in the bus and generally making it impossible for us to be alone or have any privacy. They made fun of my wife when on the last day of the tour she had donned a Sari and intruded in every picture frame making obscene faces. I have the photographs as proof! I wrote to the Tour operator,predictably not receiving even an acknowledgement! After all who is this “Oldy” Indian complaining against White men? I had thought of writing to the Australian Consulate to remind them that such behaviour does not exactly spread good feelings about their country but did not as I also did not want to Tar all of Australia as Recist. But I think it is now time the world did so.