Twenty-year-old Sunny Bajaj, an Indian student of Deakin University in Melbourne, is the latest victim of the spate of "curry-bashings" that has plagues Indian and South Asian students in Australia over the past five weeks.
Bajaj was verbally abused before being punched by a couple of men as he was getting into his car in the Eastern Melbourne suburb of Boronia on Friday night.
"They came up to me and asked me for money, I told them I had none and then they attacked me," the injured student, a native of New Delhi, told 'The Age' newspaper. "They called me a ----ing Indian c--- - why would they do that? I said nothing to them."
According to Bajaj, one of his attackers was white and the other seemed to be of African origin and both seemed to be in their twenties.
The duo slammed his car door and then attacked him. He bruised his back, broke a finger and suffered a bloody nose in the melee.
This happens to be the fourteenth reported attack on students of Indian origin in the past one month in Australia. While the authorities have denied finding substantial evidence of racial motives, the Indian media has portrayed them as being racist.
Twenty-year-old Sunny Bajaj, an Indian student of Deakin University in Melbourne, is the latest victim of the spate of "curry-bashings" that has plagues Indian and South Asian students in Australia over the past five weeks.Bajaj was verbally abused before being punched by a couple of men as he was...
Twenty-year-old Sunny Bajaj, an Indian student of Deakin University in Melbourne, is the latest victim of the spate of "curry-bashings" that has plagues Indian and South Asian students in Australia over the past five weeks.
Bajaj was verbally abused before being punched by a couple of men as he was getting into his car in the Eastern Melbourne suburb of Boronia on Friday night.
"They came up to me and asked me for money, I told them I had none and then they attacked me," the injured student, a native of New Delhi, told 'The Age' newspaper. "They called me a ----ing Indian c--- - why would they do that? I said nothing to them."
According to Bajaj, one of his attackers was white and the other seemed to be of African origin and both seemed to be in their twenties.
The duo slammed his car door and then attacked him. He bruised his back, broke a finger and suffered a bloody nose in the melee.
This happens to be the fourteenth reported attack on students of Indian origin in the past one month in Australia. While the authorities have denied finding substantial evidence of racial motives, the Indian media has portrayed them as being racist.
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