Dear Mr. Amitab Bachan
You have once again proved that your are BIG B. You showed the world how concern you are about your fellow citizens by declining an honorary Doctorship from Melbourne.The media is full of coverage of racial attacks and discrminations against Indian Students in Australia and in UK. I was moved by seeing the footages published by the media . Very happy and proud to hear how quicly our Government intervened and Prime Minister himself expressed his concern over this issue.
I need to say something about myself this time , I am working in Saudi Arabia for the past 12 years. Have ever any media showed it's concern or any leaders including the Indian Embassy let the world know how the Indians being discriminated here.
One would feel the descrimination once when they land at Riyadh Airport. The Immigration officials will drag you here and there and treat you like filthy creatures. Even a famous news paer , Arab News, cloumnist Lubna Hussain wrote about this ill treatement at Airport. Well forget about this, in work places Indians and Asians except Filipinos are treated so badly compared to their Arab Counterparts. There is discrimination in Salary and benefits and even positions, above all abused and ill treated. Maybe very few Indians might be enjoying the wrath of the management just because of their positions but majority of them are either clerks or labours who always are under attack.
Physical assault on Indians and Asians are common here by Arabs which are rarely commented or notified local media or authorities. The Indian Embassy which is well aware of these types of assaults never ever bothered to take any action. Above all the victim will never report this fear of losing job or other complications by the law. Almost all government agencies for any dispute will ask your sponsor to accompany you which is practically impossible in Saudi Arabia. Arabs' rarely do care about Indians issue they don't want to go to police station or court for the sake of his employ. Incidents are there that even the victims are threatened to be send back home if they proceed with any cases.
My request is to Indian media and Mr,Amitab Bachan is, please consider, that we people who being major share of foreing currency inflow to India , are Indians and we too have problems. We face racial discrimination and assault like other fellow Indians in Australia and UK, but our cases are always downplayed . Are we not Indians don't we have right to raise our concerns. Will BIG B write something about us in his blog.
Regards
A poor soul from Saudi Arabia
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