Wednesday 5 March 2008

Indian Students Unsafe in US?

According to a survey, 53% of all students in US universities are of Asian origin. Out of which about 80,000 are Indian students and there has been a gradual increase in the figures since the last decade.

Recent news reports seem to indicate that an increasing number of Indian students are becoming targets of violent crimes in a country which was touted to be a safe haven. Why is this happening?

Dr Akkaldelvi Srinivas is the latest to join the list. In fact, he is the fourth Indian student to meet a violent end in the US in the past three months. Isn’t that alarming?

Is it a systematic hate wave? Are people feeling threatened of Indian taking their jobs? Is it the recession? Why are South East Asians not targeted?

Sitting in the other side of the world I can’t analyze or understand this. My blog seems to get a lot of hits from the US. Can anyone shed some light on what they feel? Why are Indian students becoming targets of crimes?

4 comments:

Prasad said...

which is one of the reason's that i dint go there to study!...or was it that i never got any aid...eerr...letz leave tht!!!

i think there are these things that always has been happening....nd speaking to a friend there he says these things happen to ppl frm all nationality's and jus that the indian media only cover for indians...

but true these things are alarming!

n.aka.zephyr said...

Hey Pras
This is a regular thing?? But he media started highlighting this only a few months back..

I thought it was a new phenomena...

Students of other nationalities are a target to?? Hmmm....

Kamesh said...

Hi N :)
If we have our ABVPs, NSUIs and SFIs indulging in campus violence, other countries like US too have their share of the same.. it isn't surprising and is surely a matter of concern.. and i don't think that their police is extraordinary.. its just glamorised.. there's little hope of the guilty being brought to the book..
One needs to be careful all the time, whether its US or India.. more so when abroad, coz there's not much scope of garnering help. Hope things change for the better.

Hope things are fine otherwise..
Take Care:)

n.aka.zephyr said...

Hey Kamesh
I agree one has to be more careful when abroad... And one must not expect much help...

But getting mugged in the street is different from someone coming over to you home and murdering you... Now that's scary....