Indian Student’s Death in Australia Outrage – Ponting Contra Racism but Up to 10000 Attacks in 2009

The fatal stabbing of an Indian student in Melbourne over the weekend has added further strain on relations between Australia and India….. Victorian police are denying the attack was racially motivated, but the Indian government has bluntly insisted that Australian authorities do more….. or there will be ‘consequences’….. Australia’s Labor Party which is in power federally as well as in the major states of Victoria + New South Wales has now proven its utter ineptitude in handling matters relating to discrimination which it has even actively pursued itself to its own perceived advantage against refugees + minorities in bottom-trawling for votes in its white racist settler society majority. In 2009 it has already brought censure from both the UN + Amnesty International. But little has been done of any genuine nature despite a year of suffering by Asian students + hate crime has taken hold along with chronic alcoholism in ‘China’s quarry” as a result….. *
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Shiv Kumar Batalvi was born on 23 July 1936 at village Bara Pind of Shakargarh district, now in Punjab province of Pakistan. A world famous Punjabi poet, he came to be known as ‘Birhon daa Sultan’, meaning the ‘Emperor of pain and Pathos’. In 1967 he was awarded the Sahitya Akademi award. He is the youngest recipient of the Sahitya Akademi Award, (India’s National Academy of Letters), for his epic verse play ‘Loona’. His father, Pandit Krishan Gopal was a tehsildar in the revenue department. Their family moved to Batala in Gurdaspur district after partition of India. When young, he fell in love with the daughter of the noted Punjabi writer Gurbaksh Singh Preetlari. She was married off to a UK citizen because of caste differences between the two. He remained unlucky in love and many scholars believe that this loss reflected intensely in his poetry. I am of the opinion that it was his over sensitive and poetic nature, and a harsh and insensitive father, and not just his lost lady love, which turned him in to a poet and that too an immortal poet. He started writing poetry even before he met the lady in question. In 1968, after being married in 1967, he shifted to Chandigarh, where he joined the State Bank of India, as a PRO. In the following years, he suffered bad health because of excessive drinking, though he continued to write prolifically. On 7 May 1973, at the age of 35, he died of liver cirrhosis as a result of chronic alcoholism at his father-in-law’s house at